Word: meaninglessness
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...Harvard will once more start to function. This is the Freshman election. Just as the Union Committee has risen in the past few years to a position where it represents the Freshman class, so now the time has come to abolish the February elections which have become both meaningless and disrupting...
...Degrees Meaningless...
Hutchins suggested that students without definite abilities should not be allowed to go beyond the sophomore year. In order "to induce people to leave" at that time, some degree will have to be given them. Since degrees are meaningless anyway, the Bachelor of Arts might as well be given then...
...function of the committee has rapidly expanded. By February, its chairman is better fitted to deal with class affairs than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...
...year-old boy defying his parents," rumbled John L. Lewis at a huge mass meeting of C. I. O.'s Transport Workers' Union in Manhattan last week. "He speaks with much sound and fury. He goes into a trance and words come forth that are meaningless. He becomes inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity...