Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heresy-hunting and clergy-baiting usually dwindle into dull squabbles. Evanston's brought an unpredicted turn. The lay members of First Methodist Church, among them President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western Railway Co., backed up their Dr. Tittle, issued a manifesto: "We stand for a free pulpit and a free church. . . . We vigorously resent the effort of outside organizations to dictate to the Church or to prescribe its message...
...American Scene" is the headline story of 1932. No attempt is made to plunge beyond or to deny superficiality. Mr. Hill plies with nimble grace about prominent folk, furbishing dull news monotones with sprightly adjectives and keen imaginative sense as to detail. Herbert Clark Hoover who found that there was "something wrong with the blueprints", Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would "rather walk than be president", "Humpty-Dumpty" Ivar Krauger of the "great fall", "Playboy" Jimmy of the "Primrose Path", Smith Reynolds "who had never quite got a grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these...
...should concentrate in Geology unless he is willing to take a large amount of laboratory work, for laboratory work plays a large part in the curriculum. This should not terrify the neophyte, for the laboratory work is far from dull nor does it consume as much time as one might first imagine. Many men have found time to compete in athletics as well. Since the classes are small, the student is in close contact with the professor and instructors. Every opportunity is offered for the student to talk over problems with his professors and profit by their experience, an advantage...
Geology is a field which offers many opportunities to gain a thorough knowledge of the subject, and yet at the same time enjoy the work. "Laboratory work," "field trips," "research," these are dull, meaningless words to describe the pleasures and satisfaction which they represent for the student who enters into Geology with a willingness to work a little harder than is necessary simply to get by. Should a student decide not to go on in this field after he graduates, he will not regret having spent three brief years scratching the surface of a deposit of facts and interesting problems...
...think through new problems for himself rather than merely to hand him a set of facts throughout the course, expecting those same facts to be returned on the final examination. Even in the laboratory of the beginning courses these methods are used, and work that could be dull and totally uninspiring is made lively and interesting. These men, as tutors, again are interested in more than a tutee's particular assignment: they become personal friends with a sympathetic and helpful interests are broad and varied, and contact with them must, of necessity, add much to one's education...