Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...folding of hands. He advocated education for peace as an effective expression of the pacifistic philosophy. Reviewing the tendency to glorify war in the schools. Lorenzen stated that the average student gets the impression that the history of mankind has consisted of glorious wars and a few periods of dull peace. This coloring of history is responsible for the human love of armed conflict, and an uncompromising pacifism must go into the school textbooks and give a true picture...
...Virginia Bronson as Emilia was excellent, and if Brabantio recited his lines as if preparing for an examination, Cassio and Roderigo were fully adequate. The production was was both rich and smooth, with settings at once satisfying and suggestive, and with no long waits between them such as often dull the interest of Shakespeare. Mr. Leiber offers the most painless method of reviewing the important play...
...graduate school, and several years of experience in practical affairs before a man is prepared for his profession, the average age of starting a career is 30. In many universities all over the country there is a tendency to shorten the undergraduate course. By making the Freshman year less dull and less elemental it should be possible to educate a man in three years. German A and other elementary subjects should not be taught in the University...
With the exception of the language mentioned, Miss Hough has written a novel with no glaring faults. Neither has it any particular virtue. It is merely pleasant reading for an otherwise dull moment...
...every visiting band by learning to play one of its tunes and forming the letter on the field would require too much time, let it be pointed out that college songs are no harder to learn than the light, soothing music with which touchdown-thirsty patrons are entertained during dull periods of the game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that none of the Crimson...