Word: dull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entirely, as only about half the required number have signed. No doubt this is partly owing to the fact that many are unaware of the fact that the committee are prepared to receive subscriptions, while in many cases the pleasant weather has caused the students to forget the many dull winter hours yet in store for us in which the possession of a reading room will be a great convenience. But, however this may be, it is evident that unless all who would join the reading room under any circumstances. come forward at once, they will hereafter regret their delay...
...commanding, king-like. A staff is grasped in one hand, the other holds the drapery which comes from the shoulders and covers the lower portion of the body and the lower limbs. The modeling of the chest and limb is masterful, the pose of the head majestic. The pale dull red, green and yellow of the background, and the Graeco-Roman details of the decorative panels above and below the figure, are the same in both halves of the window. In nothing else does the glass in which Virgil is portrayed resemble Homer, save in the fillet of bays which...
Neither side scored again till the eighth inning, and the intervening innings were dull and uninteresting in the extreme, being redeemed only by the magnificent pitching of Winslow, who, although playing his first game for the season, displayed wonderful skill and coolness. In the second inning, while the ball was still slippery and hard to handle, after pitching Carpenter five poor balls, he sent in six balls in succession true over the plate, compelling Carpenter to knock fouls on three of them, and striking out on the other three...
...colleges should be not to elevate the reputation of this or that college or faculty, nor to train a few exceptional intellects among pupils, nor even for a time to foster high scholarship, but to develop the capabilities of every grade of students, to encourage, not stamp upon, the dull, stimulate the idle, fit even the most stupid for the humble place that he will hold. The faculty and college that soonest recognize this fact and act upon it will not only command the gratitude of parents but will do the best and most effective work for the country...
...Amherst, but Williams is Williamstown, which remark probably tells more than appears at a single glance. In fall, as the evenings begin to lengthen and the old Berkshire hills begin to take on the brighter hues of autumn, it becomes a common question among the fellows how the long, dull weeks of the winter term are to be enlivened, every student believing with all his heart that "much study is a weariness of the flesh." It is no longer possible to spend one's spare hours in tramping around the country, visiting the many beautiful places of natural scenery...