Word: needless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Needless to say, such a battery of constructive suggestion, coming as it does from so authoratative a source, is of immense value at this time. This is particularly the case since Mr. Root, like most of his fellow Americans, takes a liberal view of the Covenant, and considers it far from hopeless. He considers the Covenant as it stands an instrument of great practical power, but as yet far from a perfect one. If reports be true, President Wilson in Paris has already taken Senator Root's views into account. Let us profit by the fair and reasonable position which...
...following review of the Harvard Magazine was written for the CRIMSON by Mr. Lehman. It refers, needless to state, to Harvard Magazine No. 2, (all rights reserved) and not to Harvard Magazine No. 1. (Copyrighted...
...creates a very large turnover of labor that is wasteful to the employers and demoralizing to the men. Now that the Government is an unusually large employer and has on hand, the business of winning the greatest war in history all avoidable waste of material and time and all needless stirring up of the laborers are not to be tolerated...
...professor has likened it to the process of eating. Educative food is held out by the faculty in conveniently-sized morsels to be devoured by the student. The latter, prompted either by Greek-letter or pecuniary motives, seldom by others, swallows what is profered to him with no questions. Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated. And so it goes on,--this relentless pursuit after courses and credits, equivalent almost...
...closer the co-operation between universities and the commercial, industrial universe of today, the greater becomes the call for college graduates. To meet this call, and to meet it with men specially trained in a specific phase of modern business, the older institutions of learning must eliminate what seems needless. So Cambridge has broken a time-honored standard to accommodate the needs of today. Nothing could show more strikingly the present demand for men of practical liberal education, and the duty of universities to develop them...