Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is represented by the term "the Classics" in this University is a dull joke in the minds of too many of its students. Most of them have memorized and forgotten the slight vocabulary necessary to turn a given amount of Cicero into English and thus distinguish themselves by the degree of Artium Baccalaurcus from their unlearned brethren of the S.B. The pursuit of the Classics as a four-year course of study is definitely exotic and the expression "dead languages," uttered in a tone of contempt, illustrates the depths to which this subject has sunk...
...Classics into the virtual limbo in which they now stagnate, all is not right with the department here. A definite charge that they have neglected to make their subject appealing to students must be made against the men who now control its policy. Musty research, benign scholasticism and dull philology are not fulfilling obligations to their subject or to students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely one general suggestion. At any rate, if a classical education here is to turn out anything more than...
...American Newspaper Publishers Association met in annual convention last week in Manhattan's lush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. All conventions make reports, pass resolutions, let off steam in general, and the A.N.P.A. meeting was no exception. Last week's meeting, however, was more hot air than steam, more dull ditchwater than racing current. Principal subject of contemplation was Freedom of the Press...
...Revelations of an ex-Com missioner of Justice of Burgos, Spain, who first supported the rebels, turned against them because of atrocities and the dominance of German and Italian influence. Good accounts of day-to-day life behind rebel lines at the beginning of the civil war, weakened by dull speculations, sketchy historical passages...
...short while ago, the tensely industrious quiet of a Mallinckrodt laboratory was broken by a dull explosion, and quickly the large rooms filled with dense, choking vapors. There was a horrified silence; then an impotent, gesticulating circle formed around a stiff figure with eyes wrinkled shut in agony, with face glistening from chemicals which had geysered up. The stricken one uttered low, meaningless cries,--obviously it was shock...