Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have one Chinaman assigned to him, for whom he is solely responsible. The teaching is slow and sometime tedious in spite of the interest shown by the pupil and needs a patient teacher who will make it a point not to miss a single meeting. But when the apparently dull pupil has once mastered the elements of the language, then the progress is rapid, the Chinaman soon takes up the Bible, and well prepared by patient love of his teacher, he is readily led to grasp the truths of the Christian religion...
Thus it is that the beautiful fades gradually out of nature and life becomes dull and prosaic to dull and prosaic...
...Lorna Doone we have a book which charms us all at first reading but which we would not care to read through a second time. It is beautiful but to a certain extent dull...
...About the most wretched part of the whole Springfield fiasco were those songs the CRIMSON sprung upon us. It was bad enough to lose the game without the unnecessary torture of reading such dreary twaddle. Apart from the fact that they were dull, tiresome, poorly printed, and spelled in the altogether original way the CRIMSON at times affects, they were an insult to the entire college. Not even the CRIMSON has the right to put forth such stuff in the name of this college. The spirit that animated the paper was undoubtedly of the best, but these songs were unmistakably...
Professor Palmer lectured before the Prospect Union last night on "The Study of Poetry." He said: Every hard-working man really needs some interest outside of his regular work to broaden him and to keep him from being dull. It seems better that this interest should be in some fine art, music, or painting, or poetry, something entirely without money value, because then we feel that it is of no use to anyone else and is a thing peculiarly our own. There is a great advantage in choosing the study of poetry for our interest rather than other fine...