Word: useless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Witkin '14 treated the question from a purely practical standpoint. Government employees acting in postal or railroad positions are identical with employees of private corporations, and as such ought to have the right to seek an amelioration of their condition. Past history has shown that parliamentary action is useless. Hence the only satisfactory method is by open strike...
...weather will permit. Candidates will be called out in a few days and the work will be harder than usual, as a permanent reduction in the squad will be made so that next spring the development of the team will not be hampered by the necessity of weeding out useless material...
President Eliot said that careful students of democratic institutions have maintained that democracy tends to make a people uniform. They have said that the fundamental notion of democracy is equal opportunity, which brings uniformity of character. But equal opportunity is useless in bringing about uniformity, unless it is aided by equal capacity for seizing opportunity, and since equal capacity is impossible on account of differences in learning and talent, there is no such thing as equal opportunity. In our own country, a great, free democracy for more than a century, we have given a chance for equal opportunity...
According to the current number of the Advocate, the sermons in Appleton are generally uninteresting, the exercises are dull and mechanical, and the student attendance is very small. In short, the services on Sunday mornings are "futile and almost useless...
...better criticism of our life could hardly be made. It is useless to attempt to prove that only a certain few at the head of undergraduate affairs are the busy ones. We are all, with only a few exceptions, overcrowded with more or less useless "interests and activities," a phase which strangely enough never seems to include intellectual development. And the remedy will only come when we realize that there is more to be got from a College course than will result from the scattered existence which most of us now lead at Cambridge...