Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward the future it is extremely doubtful if the University will ever be able to deal a knockout blow to the tutoring schools. But the possibility of a decision for the University is not so impossible. When instructors realize that they must organize their lectures and dole out their dismal reading lists for the "C" man as well as for the honor student, then the University will have done its part. And when this happens, then the students themselves will see that twenty gruelling hours of copying and time for re-reading could be better and more cheaply spent...
...ever there was an ignored stepchild, the Law School is one. Once we leave the impeccable faculty, the scene is dismal. Austin Hall is a dingy relic, its classrooms ill-lighted, its accommodations cramped. Hastings is a typical New York tenement; Perkins, a cell block. Even so, they can house only a minority of the students. There are absolutely no dining facilities. We visit the A.A. during the Fall--after purchasing student books--and are handed seats (week after week) in the recesses of the Colonnades. Should we complain, one of their impolite minions snaps back that Harvard...
Garland of Bays is a big book. Extremely long (670 close-packed pages), it covers scenes of English provincial life, college, intrigues in literary circles, skullduggery, betrayal, seduction, rape, theft, hanging-a dismal record enlivened by the excitement of the story. Author Jones, a young professor at the University of Wales, pictures Greene as a kind of talented Elizabethan Anthony Adverse, thoughtless enough to drift into trouble and courageous and quickwitted enough...
Then the absence of a Chicago punter began to toil. Faced with a high wind, they got off two truly dismal boots, one of them travelling only nine yards from scrimmage. After a good runback by Macdonald, Cohen bucked a couple of times, and then Foley ran through to the six-inch line and went over on the next play...
...what was to have been the Battle of the Century, the Kirkland and Winthrop football teams deadlocked 0-0 yesterday on Soldiers Field in a sloppily played contest, leaving both elevens tied for the House grid lead at the end of the dismal struggle. Eliot scored its first touchdown of the season in the other contest, only to be nosed out by Dudley...