Word: worthlessness
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...argument that suitable and sufficient changes cannot be made, now, or in future, because the changes made last year did not accomplish all that was hoped for, -this argument, I say, is childish and worthless. For, in the first place, the students now are much better able to judge what changes are needed, and, secondly, changes which last year were almost universally opposed by the students, would this year meet with almost unanimous approval. Let it be remembered, however, that the reason of this opposition last year was not so much because we were unwilling to see changes made...
...ring in these lines makes them foolish. It is a common thing for all poetry of this kind to be written about the sea, until in truth, it becomes all "endless sea" to the reader. No poetry is so easy to write as this ; no poetry is so utterly worthless when written. The most remarkable verse we have met, one which expresses the feelings the sea stirred up in the poet, and in which the author seems to be in a sort of ecstasy of grief and woe while giving one the impression that he was "born tired...
...library book in this manner. There seems to be a set of literary vandals who feel it incumbent upon them to write as marginal notes whatever may occur to them on the perusal of a book, quite regardless of the fact that such notes are not only utterly worthless, but oftentimes very annoying to another. Of course every one has a right to cover his own books with any reflections he may choose to disfigure them with, but when such an one scribbles on library books,-books passing through so many hands,-he performs an act of extreme vandalism. Novels...
...small compared with the bulk of the population, the question of practical education will never rest. The main object looked at in a new country is the acquisition of wealth, and any education which will not aid in the gaining of that object is looked upon as worthless. The idea of education for its own sake, or for the culture which it brings with it, has not as yet gained a hold upon the American people, although this charge would be denied with great indignation. The institutions of learning in this country all to a greater or less degree reflect...
...only change from the conventional style of class reports is in the omission of the measurements of the class. "These tables have been necessarily so imperfect and so nearly worthless as standards of comparison that I have felt justified in discarding them, notwithstanding the violation of precedent...