Word: bore
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some such outside interest. To the majority of undergraduates, probation means practically nothing but the necessity of keeping College engagements regularly. Some men get placed upon probation with a surprising regularity at certain times every year. Many come to expect it as a matter of course-rather a bore, indeed, because it places them under the necessity of ceasing cutting, but otherwise hardly worthy of passing notice. That such an attitude should be allowed to exist is unfortunate. Probation should be made to mean something more. It is true that the matter is serious when some excellent athlete...
...soon as it hatches the worm makes its way into the twigs, where it feeds and grows as it burrows into the larger limbs. These worms vary in size from three-eighths of an inch to over three inches in length, when they are the most destructive. They then bore across and completely girdle large limbs, and frequently even girdle the trunk, finally cutting a cell close to the bark and there turning into pupas. When these develop they push out through the bark and become moths, which in turn lay their eggs in the bark of the twigs...
...great delicacy shown by the actors in their readings of the lines. Mr. Miller was well suited by temperament for the part he has to play. Jessie Bonstelle as Rhoda showed a very sensitive comprehension of her character and succeeded in producing the illusion for us. The whole cast bore witness to most careful selection and training...
...audience, says that eminent feuilletonist, "nine lady sports all dressed in green." The seduction--"His Room-mate's Side of It"--is merely vulgar and uncharacteristic. An artist may sometimes feel inclined to experiment with this kind of subject, but the present very conventional treatment of it would bore even a lumber-camp. On the whole, I am inclined to care most for the tale of the Idiot Boy, "Jonathan," who inadvertently slew his pet cricket. The tragedy was due to an indigestion brought on by eating dough. The end is charming: "Jonathan is 'a great hand,' his father tells...