Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first half year, was generally endorsed. Assistant Professor Finley reigns here and is well liked for the liveliness of his classes and his interest in literature. Einarson, who instructed in this course last year, is not recommended, partly perhaps, because his inexperience in class work makes his classes dull and because he is more interested in Philology than literature...
English 30--Seventeenth Century. Murdock tends to be dull but coordinates the massive reading well. Second half more tedious than first half...
...Morison's personality History 60 is a delight for the American specialist; last year Nettels was very good. History 62a gives an economic approach to America. The most important course to the American concentrator is 63; although his humor is pleasant. Professor Schlesinger's lectures are on the whole dull. Most of the reading, especially the literary aspect, is antiquated and superficial; the marking of hour exams is felt to be unfair because too much material is wanted in a small amount of time. Complete reorganization, perhaps on a topical rather than chronological basis, seems urgent. In 65b Buck provides...
...high powered course meeting five times & week and combining A with the second year course C. Both were easier than expected. Course C is intended for those who want to pursue study in grammar and composition. It is not so easy and to those not interested in grammar is dull. French E is the course for those who pass the cp8 entrance examination, is the largest French course, and is divided into sectiontions on Drama, Science, History, and Literature. It is well liked, not too hard...
Professor Weston heads all four courses in literature, but they are never all given together. His failing is the same as that noted in Spanish--his literature courses, except perhaps Italian 10 on Dante, consist of literal translations with little or no appreciation or background, and are therefore dull for the advanced student. 4 is his half course on literature in general; in course 5, on modern literature, he devotes three fourths of the time to poetry, and the class consists mainly of translation...