Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...society was never very heartily supported and one cause was, undoubtedly, the "lectures" with which each meeting was opened. The subject was chosen by the lecturer and judging from their titles, the lectures must have been very truile and dull. Questions bearing upon politics and slavery were rarely discussed, in spite of the strong political feeling at the time...
With to-day's issue, the CRIMSON enters upon its eighth volume. Established in the spring of 1882 with prospects anything but flattering, dull times, small circulation, a formidable competitor in the old Echo, then in its third year, the paper has overcome all obstacles, has steadily increased in size and circulation, until now it contains in the course of a year more reading matter than any college publication in the world, and its circulation is commensurate with its size...
...most trying experiences of Harvard student life is the sensation of daily contact with a source of annoyance which time can never dull and which increases in its power of discomfort as time goes on. The troubles arising from the increasing advent of the "mucker" element have never assumed such proportions as at the present. Every form of this much agitated question has been discussed again and again. And as often the college authorities have refused to take any notice of the matter. But it is at last time that some action should be taken, if not by the faclty...
...real cause of the small attendance at the meetings must have been the "lectures" with which each meeting was opened, and which, judging from their titles, can hardly have been anything but trite and dull. Had they been done away with, there is little reason to doubt that the society would have lasted much longer than...
...common thing for men of means to refuse to send their sons to college on the ground that they were going into business, where, according to their view, a college education would be worse than useless. If there were anything connected with any kind of business which called for dull wits and a narrow mind, then there might be some sense of such a position. But the opposite being true, it is important to observe that college training of the present day aims at developing the best qualities in a man, and at giving him personal independance, outside of mere...