Word: dull
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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According to the current number of the Advocate, the sermons in Appleton are generally uninteresting, the exercises are dull and mechanical, and the student attendance is very small. In short, the services on Sunday mornings are "futile and almost useless...
Whether or not a sermon may be justly termed a "dull, uninteresting lecture" is more or less a matter of opinion. The CRIMSON'S opinion on this point differs radically from that expressed in the Advocate editorial. In few churches are poor sermons so rare and exceptional sermons so frequent as in Appleton Chapel. A reading of the Advocate editorial would lead one to believe that seldom are distinguished preachers brought to the Chapel. A glance at the list of men who have preached this year will show that there have been but few Sundays when the pulpit...
Note taking fixes the attention upon what is being said, and impresses the lecture on the memory far more effectively and permanently than does mere listening. Besides, notes often prove the means of arousing a student's interest in what had hitherto seemed a very dull course, and the better work which invariably attends increased interest consequently results. More important still, note taking teaches one to grasp the essentials and to unearth the underlying fundamentals from the mass of illustrations and illusions by which they are oftentimes obscured. Also, condensation and conciseness of expression are promoted by careful note taking...
Several fielding features kept the game from being dull. In the opening inning, after Wingate had reached first base on a dropped third strike, Fox hit a liner to McLaughlin, who got to the base in time for a double play. Exeter pulled off a double play in the third inning. With Lanigan on first, Babson hit a grounder to Frye, who played the ball to second for a force-out on Lanigan and Babson was caught at first on Hennesey's throw. Wingate's catch of a foul fly near the stands in the seventh, and Vaughn's diving...
...College color, the Corporation has decided that a single official crimson is necessary, and has authorized it for all Faculty purposes. It is of the color of material blood, being more purple and much richer than the shade now in use, which beside it looks brown and dull by contrast...