Word: dull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when the familiar character of the composition and the position of the author are viewed. The writer informs us in the modest preface that the poems contained in the volume were written, with the exception of two of the shorter ones, before coming to college, and this statement must dull, it would seem, the pen of the most ill-natured critic...
...usually gets $3 per hour. These prices vary, of course; but this is the average. Many a man has entirely paid his way through Harvard by tutoring, and many graduates support themselves there during their post-graduate studies in the same way. Tutoring is not confined to lazy or dull men. Sometimes a smart scholar, wishing to devote all his time to one branch of study, and being compelled to pass examinations in other branches, will tutor up in the latter rather than spend the time necessary to work them up alone. Then, also, there are usually a number...
Stocks yesterday in New York were very dull and sluggish...
WILLIAMSTOWN, April 18, 1882. Williamstown, like Nature, assumes a new aspect with the advent of spring, and the dull, quiet place of a few weeks ago now teems with life and activity...
...HARVARD DAILY HERALD : Columbia has been unusually dull this year, the only excitement being an occasional rush and a few stormy class-meetings. The apathy shown by the students is due largely to the fact that nearly the whole of the campus has been taken up by the new law School building, and the sons of Erin engaged thereon, and there being no place to congregate, the students, upon concluding their duties, immediately set out for home, except a few more sociably inclined, who gather in the offices of the Spectator and the Acta, where affairs collegiate are discussed...