Word: useless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...powers or equivalent ones, then the whole matter must be dropped. In adopting such a plan, however, the committee is taking no unnecessary chances. For if the Faculty is not willing to give us an effective body, then, certainly, nothing can be gained from repeating the experiment of another useless Council. In case the Faculty sees fit to confer the necessary authority on the new body, the constitution should be submitted to the undergraduates for ratification. When ratified, the members of the Council will be elected...
...Freshmen, the sooner they learn that blatant noise is not admired at Harvard, the better it will be for them and for the University. If it is upperclassmen who misbehave, all that can be said is that they are old enough to know that such disturbances are useless, destructive, undignified and offensive...
...drop-kick occurred during the first part off the scrimmage. Just before the end, the University team was put on the defensive on its 10-yard line. The second tried six line plays but could not score. A forward pas was the last resort but that also proved useless...
...Players' Club also undertakes public performances, purporting to display the acting ability of undergraduates, useless competition and duplication and consequent loss if efficiency is bound to result. This will militate against the University, for, if the Dramatic Club, its recognized organ of dramatic expression, fails to maintain the high standard set in the past, the public will be led to believe that the interest or ability of the undergraduates is lagging...
...economically useless to attempt to check corporate monopolies, the government should confine its efforts to ascertaining the line beyond which they become dangerous and confining them within it by stringent legislation. Inasmuch as corporations extend their ramifications over many states, they have passed beyond the scope of state control and contrary to the opinion of many people, lie naturally under the jurisdiction of the federal government...