Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Museum of Art. The drawing is singularly well adapted in style, we are told, not merely to Lincoln's rugged personality, but to Drinkwater's spare, and yet significant, outline of Lincoln, in his strangely effective drama. The picture is flatly done in black and white against a dull orange background...
...education at the University! What delightful vistas our imaginations open at these words! The transformation of that dull class in Paleontology 37 X when you discover the delightful blonde two seats to the left to have a most ingratiating smile. We can picture the amorous flirtation between freshmen in Psychology A, ripening four years later into a romantic courtship between fellow classmates in the "Education of the Child." With beatific dreams of languorous "co-eds," we wonder why we have failed to welcome women students long, long...
...Long Ago," now playing at the Plymouth Theatre, a comedy combining a human note with delightful humor and delicate romance, is one of the very bright spots in an otherwise rather dull season. It is a spontaneous, natural comedy which is universal in its appeal to every type of theatre-goer...
...this is merely the result of disregarding the most elementary laws of human commonsense. A few more tokens of interest on the part of this type of professor, and a dull unwilling grind would be changed to real interest end enjoyment of the course. And yet there are always a few members on the staff of every University who fail to see that straightforward human interest and a manly attitude of give and take are of incalculably greater worth, as far as the training of students is concerned, than the most eminent record of scholarly attainment...
...work in any course because of his tutorial obligations. Moreover, no credit is given for tutorial work apart from its indirect results in the general examinations, and, for incentive, men have to depend upon a tutor assigned by lottery. He may be inspiring and he may be dull--it is a gamble...