Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...After pointing out "the evils of overtraining and excessive exertion" and the defects in the management of sports and their remedies, the President says: "It must be perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high qualities are exercised for no adequate end." With the last sentence perhaps many of us will disagree; and no doubt...
...absences from chapel is carelessness and unwillingness to sacrifice a few minutes. Many men have never taken the trouble to go inside the Chapel. It is not because they are atheists and devoid of all religious sentiment, but because they have a feeling that the Chapel must be a dull sort of a place...
...Graduate" wish to strike here his dominant note of reform, and in the seductive "nominating speeches" to offer Ninety-seven a panacea for all the ills besetting Class Day elections? If this has been his motive he has succeeded but poorly, and we fear he must have been a dull scholar in his undergraduate days, or else he neglected the good English courses shamefully. [See Rhetoric: "Clearness...
goers as one of the most delightful performances of the season at the Park. Harlan is unequalled in his line of comedy; his humor is spontaneous, his methods original. his action brisk, and there is never a dull moment when he is on the stage. Most of his associates in the cast who won so much favor during his former visit, are still with him, including, of course, William DeVere, the quaint Arizona editor. The Queen of Burlesque is this season played by Miss Ada Dare. Mr. Hoyt has introduced a number of new and exceedingly amusing scenes. The engagement...
...York and enjoy the fortune bequeathed him, is remembered by play-goers as one of the most delightful performances of the season at the Park. Harlan is unequalled in his line of comedy; his humor is spontaneous, his methods original. his action brisk, and there is never a dull moment when he is on the stage. Most of his associates in the cast who won so much favor during his former visit, are still with him, including, of course, William DeVere, the quaint Arizona editor. The Queen of Burlesque is this season played by Miss Ada Dare. Mr. Hoyt...