Word: boredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Freshman is merely bored, the Sophomore is bored but striving for originality, the Junior is distinctly not bored, but suffering from a species of nightmare--the dark before the dawn. At last the Sleeper awakens and substituting the lambskin for the pigskin goes forth to see what he may...
Harvard men have the reputation of being silent. Silent that is, when they are in a group not composed of their own friends or classmates; and this same silence has often been attributed to snobbishness or worse. But as a matter of fact, when a man does not talk, it...
None of these conditions is inevitable. To be bored--or to assume boredom--is merely putting an insult upon your own intelligence in picking your company; the other two are merely the result of inexcusable mental laziness.
Germany, like "The Varmint", will never allow its neighbors to become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they...
If the Glee Club sees fit to leave behind it a "trail of disappointed audiences," who came expecting to spend an enjoyable evening and were bored in the extreme, I fail to see just why it has attained a higher or nobler end than one which gives to the audiences...