Word: groundless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this organization that a very meagre entry will reward their generous efforts. It will be a great pity if this should be the case, and will prove that outside of Yale and Harvard, American colleges care little for aquatic sports. We sincerely hope that the aforesaid fears may prove groundless...
...false. Harvard never has made that silly boast, and does not intend to. She knows the uncertainty of the chances of boat-races too well to feel sure of anything except that she will try her best. Most of the bad feeling between the two Colleges arises from such groundless suspicions of one another, as Yale's belief in this statement indicates. We hope that Yale will believe Harvard too courteous, at least, to make such insulting boasts...
...manly " we do not admit that "the popularity which the independent man professes to scorn is the esteem, the respect, and the friendship of manly men." The reason he assigns is deceptive. If he means that we look upon no popular men as manly he makes a groundless and false assertion ; if he means that we hold that a number of popular men are not manly, he is right. We hold to the common view that those popular men who, when occasion calls, express themselves against vicious talk or acts are manly, and that those whose popularity...
...till Professor Agassiz could be conferred with; and accordingly the matter now stands substantially the same as it was left last week. Professor Agassiz has now returned to Cambridge; and after consulting him, steps will be taken to ascertain what position Yale means to maintain in regard to the groundless and insulting charges she has seen fit to make against the referee of our last race with her. We think that in this matter the general sentiment of Harvard is as follows : Yale is, above all other colleges, the one with which we wish to row, and in order...
...have received several complaints of the recent examination in Solid Geometry from members of the Freshman Class; and after careful inspection of the examination paper, we have come to the conclusion that these complaints are by no means groundless. Sixteen questions were given, two of the four easiest of which were to be omitted at option; answers to fourteen were required. And these fourteen are a series of problems and propositions whose solution might well perplex a far wiser mathematician than the average Freshman is supposed...