Word: uselessly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...words. Some ladies, in the role of visitors in Cambridge, knocked at a student's door, and to the repeated summons of "Come in!" only knocked again, when they were finally greeted with an oath. It is perfectly clear to all that swearing is a vulgar and useless habit, and we are sorry that one of our number has been betrayed into it, especially before ladies; and we hope that the fitness of polite communication will be clear to the offender in future, and that no similar complaint will again reach...
...certain extent, sacred character of the Hall. But, in answer to this, let us consider the true purpose of the building. It was to perpetuate the memory of the sons of Harvard who perished in the war; but are they more honored in building a grand but useless pile, than in making their monument of some real benefit to the College? It were better to build a handsome granite shaft to their memory, and then expend the rest in founding scholarships, than to sink the whole fund in a useless Babel of bricks and mortar. This monument of Harvard...
...word "moderation" is once mentioned to a temperance reformer, it is a frightful tirade he commences. It is useless to suggest that the best men in England and this country do not approve or practice total abstinence. No one can tell, he truly says, how much more eminent they would be did they not muddle their brains with wine. And then the bad example! But notwithstanding such arguments, no one can deny that he who is moderate is not intemperate. How to have an assurance that men will be and will remain moderate, is the problem. Just as with some...
...refer to such a Commons as at present disgraces us, - for it would be hardly less than brutal to compel any one to attend a place in which there is not room enough for more than two thirds of its occupants; in which - But it is useless to enumerate its faults; they are already well known. Would that it had as many, or even any, merits which might be told! It must be remembered that the proposed Commons is to be in a room much more elegant than any in which students now take their meals, and where, by proper...
...answers to our questions were somewhat brief, or there was any lack of fervor in our welcome, it was attributed to the attention necessarily due to matters of importance decided there, thus leaving no time for the little civilities always expected from public officials. Arguments would have been useless to prove that we received less attention, enjoyed fewer privileges, or were regarded even with less respect than our older brothers. Conviction on that point was impossible. Fortunately that ever-present delusion of a blissful state never fades until seen through the eyes of a Sophomore or Junior. Harvard's youngest...