Word: useless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annoyance, not only to students, but to the residents of Cambridge who are unfortunate enough to be within sound of it. While it is not loud enough to be an effectual rising bell, it makes enough noise to be a disturbance, paradoxical as the statement may seem. Such a useless, and yet such an annoying custom ought most certainly to be put an end to at once, and we feel sure that every undergraduate would greet with satisfaction the announcement that future generations would be spared the infliction of listening to its notes in the early morning...
...tends more or less directly towards aiding one in his life's work, whatever that may be. Hebrew is just as practical to a student of theology as a knowledge of the use of tools is to a carpenter's apprentice. What is practical to one man is almost useless to another. Hence, to make a university training more practical, the opportunities for the pursuit of different studies and different branches of studies must be multiplied. This is brought about by the elective system which allows a man to devote himself to one special subject which will be extremely practical...
...past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely, and all conversation is carried on maforeign tongue. Such a school, of course, could only result in giving the student a practical knowledge of the language...
...regard to the evil of speculation it seems useless to dwell at length as so much has been said on this subject, but it is sincerely hoped that all will use the greatest discretion in the disposal of their tickets...
Every year trouble has been caused at the beginning of the term in September because students, in certain courses, find it impossible to secure proper text books without considerable delay. This is both annoying and useless. If all the instructors would notify the book-sellers beforehand concerning the probable number of such books required, it would do away with all the annoyance that is now experienced...