Word: dull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of the threatening weather, there were but few spectators at the game between the Amherst and Harvard freshmen, on Holmes Field, Saturday afternoon. Except toward the very last, the game was dull. It was marked by the wildest batting and worse base-running of the home team and the bungling work of the Amherst third baseman and left fielder. The pitcher, catcher and second baseman played the best fielding game for Amherst. For Harvard, Dean's work at second was excellent. The batting of the nine as a whole was terribly weak, seventeen men striking...
...game as a whole was less dull than most of those played this year. The batting of both nines was fair, Harvard of course doing the heaviest hitting. The fielding of the visitors was much sharper than that of the home team. The heavy hitting of Quacken-boss for the home team and the fielding of Duryea at second base for Williams were the noticeable features of the game. Brown, the left fielder of the Williams team, made a beautiful running catch, which elicited prolonged applause from the spectators. The game was called at the end of the eighth inning...
...CRIMSON for past weeks are to be taken as criterions of conscientious work, the audience should be treated to something startling in its originality and of surpassing excellence in its production. The college will also expect the Freshman Glee Club to do its share in driving away dull care during the long spring and summer evenings, by entertaining the inmates of the dormitories in the yard with songs of mirth and jollity...
Among the chief social events which occur to break the monotony of the dull winter are the monthly receptions given in Dwight Hall by President and Mrs. Dwight. They are largely attended by the professors and the members of the different departments of the university, and do much to promote acquaintance and a feeling of friendship between the students and instructors, thus removing one of the commonest objections to university life...
...gets so hot that one is very apt to fall asleep and dream of purgatory, the study of serious matters is wrongly interfered with. As it is now, one must either be melted or open the windows, getting a bad cold either way; or be the victim of a dull headache, which makes it impossible to do any good work...