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...mountains suitable for aspiring Alpine climbers in need of a little closed season workout, the Mountaineering Club yesterday resorted to climbing down instead of up. About ten members, equipped with all the paraphernalia necessary for slab climbing, went down to the Quincy granite quarries to shake off the boredom of inactivity and receive instruction from Edward C. Streeter '36 and Dana B. Durand...
...fight in which he had no interest, he was made to take the whole blame for the autocracy of his superior. How pathetic and weak he seemed when reporters asked him about the Moses case! All he could do in his defence was re-assert again and again his boredom about the whole matter. Then finally having been released from carrying through such an impossible and unjust action, he must make silly, hypocritical excuses for the whole affair, and let the world despise him more. Let us hope that he refinds his strength in worshipping the cause of his troubles...
...reason for the poor and often menacing advice is the slipshod and hasty method of examination. Students are herded in and out of the offices with undue haste and the attitude of the doctors is usually one of intense boredom with the whole procedure. The average length of time spent in consultation with the doctor is about three minutes and rarely more than one or two minutes when the office is crowded. A student with a severe cough was examined by a doctor while he read a letter and hastily given a prescription for some inhalant. He was not interested...
Cast up the balance of your life. On one side of the ledger put all your past pleasures, all the hard-won triumphs and unexpected windfalls, all the satisfactions, material, mental, emotional. On the other side itemize every trouble, setback and sorrow, all the pain, frustration, deprivation and boredom. Now add up your columns and prepare to make an immediate choice of two alternatives...
...London Daily Express, enterprising stunter (see above), invited its readers to state what people they liked to read about most (and least). Public Bore No. 1 was George Bernard Shaw. After him in order of boredom...