Word: meaninglessness
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...Alas," by C.G.L., is well named; it is a series of meaningless and trivial words, and an unfortunate blot on an otherwise good number...
...Solness. It is incoherent and is, throughout, illogical, almost trivial. The crack in the wall, designedly neglected to cause the death of two children and destroy the happiness of half a dozen people, seems too small a peg on which to hang such tragic events. The abrupt and meaningless transition, in the scene between Hilda and Solness in the first act, from church steeples to the kingdom of youth, and back again, is worthy of the veriest tyro. But in the expression of subtle thoughts and emotions and in shades of feeling so delicate we cannot define them in ourselves...
...days ago you published a letter from the Class Committee which stated that the wearing of caps without the gowns after the coming recess would be meaningless. In regard to this it seems that wearing the caps would be very significant, for if a man had on the cap it would be just as apparent that he was a Senior as it would be if he had on both the cap and gown, and this is the main object of wearing either of them, that a man may wear something which makes him appear a Senior, not for the benefit...
...regard to the wearing of caps without gowns, irrespective of the time of wearing them, the Class Day Committee desire to say that they do not believe it advisable to separate the two, since to them it appears that the caps without the gowns are meaningless...
...doubt as to the intention. As to the insult to the class suggested by the writer in Wednesday's CRIMSON, I think the laughter at the time of the interruption to the lecture puts that well out of question. Granting that the trick was foolish, granting that it was, meaningless (which would remove the insult), granting that it was too bad to lose the lecture, it is still making a mountain of a mole hill to talk of "insults...