Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass the entrance examinations with an average grade of, say, 80 or 85', should be admitted without further examination, providing, of course, they are of good moral character." If enough scholars applied the enrollment limit might be reached but the fact is that most of us are too dull to enter so easily. Although the university's aim may be to mould men, under this plan the scholar is still given the place of honor...
...time has gone when the newspaper man is the avowed enemy of the University. Petty anti-college prejudices have passed with the progress of American education. What was once considered smart has become cheap. The jokes on the college man are passing with those state and insufferably dull stories of the absent-minded professor. So much for the question general...
...youthful ideals were founded on nothing--apparently. The method of presentation is very similar to that used by Mrs. Rinehart in her sub-deb stories; the chief difference is that the sub-deb stories were intentionally funny. Told in the first person, the book is not altogether dull, but is full of many incidents that are absurd and often amusing. There seems to be no true sense of value--perhaps Miss Kelley is trying to show that city-life is apt to throw things out of proportion--but at times one is annoyed by the emphasis that is put upon...
...part of the disesteem which for years dull minds visited upon him was the result of his novel writing, which was not first rate. Though his mind was essentially creative, it worked less freely through his imagination and sympathy than through his critical faculty. Whereas his novels were mainly empty shells of form, his volume on English Composition was full of meat, probably the most philosophic and stimulating work on this much be-written subject. His critical biography of Shakespeare was by turns brilliantly original and deficient in imaginative feeling. In his later years his methods sobered somewhat, his interests...
There is something fundamentally wrong in the nature of men who, considering any desire to be serious as dull and boring and even "plebeian," can have the callousness to joke about a man who has just made the most courageous and noble and idealistic sacrifice a man can make. Levity in such a case cannot fail to stir the feelings of all those who see in Lord Mayer MacSwiney's death an unfalling loyalty to ideals, seldom realized in most men, and therefore the more inspiring, And such levity will not, I think, be anything to be boasted...