Word: needless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time comes, a president's creed can avail little before public opinion, and the demand of common sense. What if President Bartlett had to change his creed, making it read-"We believe in the government by the students, subject to the advice and approval of the faculty?" It is needless to say that it would be an awful descent. But, then, some mountains will be steep; and men who are foolish enough to climb them, must come down sooner or later. The descent may be even rapid and ungraceful, but still it is often politic...
...greatest number." According to this policy, he asserts that foot-ball and base-ball, limited to a small number of men, have been discouraged, while all gymnasium work, track athletics, tennis, etc., in which an unlimited number of men can take part, have been encouraged. It is needless to state that all thoughtful students at Harvard would heartily concur in any measures which would induce a greater number of students to take exercise...
...across the yard without a heavy overcoat, when rooms in Thayer and Holyoke could not be heated above forty or fifty degrees, one of the crews had the hardihood to run up North Avenue, clad in the scanty and inadequate clothing of the gymnasium. The harm done by such needless exposure is two fold: 1st. As certain parts of the body are chilled, the circulation of the blood becomes irregular, and the heart is liable to ge affected. The captains, however, can avoid this danger by compelling their men to wear more clothing, especially around the neck, arms and legs...
...Christmas recess, I had the fortune to make a hasty visit to the new building of the Medical School, the Harvard home of the successors of Hippocrates and Aesculapins, now being used for the second year. Of the outside of the great building on Boylston street it is needless to speak ; it is familiar to most of the undergraduates either by personal observation or photographs. Few of them, however, see the inside, and it is not till after graduation that a certain large per cent of the A. B's who have enrolled themselves in the school become familiar with...
That the dress of students be neat and decent is highly proper, but that it should be very ornamental and expensive is ever needless, and often times pernicious; nor will any student who is solicitous to acquire knowledge, and sincerely disposed to improve his time to the best advantage in obtaining such degrees of it as may enable him to be extensively useful to the community, feel a reluctance to economical institutions respecting dress. He will not only esteem the ornaments of mind of vastly higher importance than those of the body, but the general good will also constantly influence...