Word: groundless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some of the disadvantages which men coming here had been led to expect were: immoral and irreligious influences, lax and superficial spirit of work, extravagance, expense of living, snobbery, and others. Most of those who mentioned these thing found their anticipations to be groundless...
...part, to watch her natural rivals contending amongst themselves; for it is our hope that Harvard, Princeton and Columbia will now join hands and continue the formation of the new league, and let Yale enjoy her empty honors. Yale has no reason to hold back on account of some groundless suspicion that combinations will be formed against her by the rival colleges, for, under the proposed rules of the new association, a unanimous consent would be necessary for the adoption of any important measure. Such a suspicion is unmanly, and would be justifiable only in the supposition of previous unfair...
...rumor spread around college before Christmas that several freshmen had been dismissed from college, is entirely groundless...
...fears that Professor Ladd expresses as to the results of the New Education, to one who is not predisposed to feel them, seem groundless. Is there a greater smattering and shallowness of study under the elective than under the prescribed system? The adherants of the latter have claimed again and again that the elective system tended, not to give a man a smattering knowledge of many subjects, but to make him one-sided by leading them into specialties. The causes for the change from the old to the new, have been fears, nay even realizations, of shallowness, of knowledge gained...
...sometimes claimed that the senior societies govern the college press. The fact that on the editorial boards of all the papers except the Yale Literary Magazine, the non-society men greatly outnumber the society men, efficiently disproves this. The charge of favoritism, the writer dismisses as almost groundless, and asserts that many instances have been known where an intimate friend or relative of a prominent society man has failed to be elected worthy of the honor. Some detractors of the system say that the societies tend to keep the non-society men from coming back to commencements and other reunions...