Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer of your critique on Economics, which appeared in last Friday's issue, used rather strong language when he stated, with Olympian finality, of Economics A that "undergraduate opinion almost unanimously would condemn the course as dull to the point of stupidity, uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive." The lame loophole provided by the insertion of the word "almost" cannot exempt the article from considerable criticism...
That Economics A should be the introductory course in the field is an unfortunate if unavoidable fact. Undergraduate opinion almost unanimously would condemn the course as dull to the point of stupidity, uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive. Leaders in the de- partment have replied to the writer's criticism that the lecture system is incapable of giving the student a firm and realistic grip on the difficult problems of economic theory. They point to past experience for support. With unconcealed sense of martyrdom they explain how and why the lecture system was abandoned in the past. The fact remains, however, that...
...baleful season. No longer the dull throb of an orchestra, like drums in far off mountains, sounds in the gilded ballroom. Dresses black and gold and red and ochre, have been folded away in the cedar chest against the coming of a new campaign. Great grandmother's ear rings have gone back into mother's jewelry box. In one short month the sound and fury have dropped below a far horizon. And the girls have drifted off to Bermuda in new tweed suits, or to Florida in picture hats. Now this, to the Vagabond, is altogether fitting. Not the vanishing...
Harvard classes in Greek and Latin do not often provide a playground for vague or capricious thinking. They often seem very dull. This is a point for or against the Classics, as you please. It is probably both. I should suggest in favor of the former view that the labor of translating accurately is not an aid to misunderstanding and consequently misapplying what our contemporaries have to say. On the other hand, the study of the Classics being chiefly a matter of assimilation, if a man confines himself to the work assigned he may pass honorably through four years...
...series of dull explosions and a dreadful stench drove 4,000 guests of the Centre Asturiano Regional Society dance out into the night. The smell was traced to the person of Bartolome Mas, 25, when a stink bomb exploded in his pocket...