Word: dull
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which we doubt not sounds as dull in his warn...
...good man averages about $75 a month. The reason that men pursue such a hazardous calling for such small wages is due to the fact that the life is never dull, and after some years they become so fascinated with it, that they never retire until forced...
...think that the Department of the Classics has realized its former shortcomings and is endeavoring, in its courses on literature, to substitute personal, historical, and literary interest for grammar and exegesis. In this effort much depends on the instructors, some of whom make even interesting courses dull, while others are most fortunate in the presentation of their subjects; nothing, for instance, could be more delightful than Professor Rand's exposition of Horace. We hope that men who wish to take the word-puzzle view of the classics will be relegated to courses of their own, and that all the courses...
...from the present specimen, readers of the Advocate for the rest of the year may expect to find there each fortnight a few suggestive editorial notes, in the discussion of which undergraduates may find occasion to sharpen their wits, several short stories calculated to suit varying tastes but never dull, and some bits of verse which should not be analyzed too closely...
...parts in "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" were so well taken and the musical numbers so acceptably rendered that there was not a dull moment during the entire performance. Special mention should be made of the acting and singing of A. F. Hurlburt '09, who took the part of Sganarelle. His rendition of the Bottle Song of the first act and of the "Vive la Medecine" at the opening of the third act were especially pleasing. The spirit of gayety of the great Moliere was well introduced into the performance by the acting of F. R. Leland sC., and G. Howe...