Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guilt lies in having been too big-hearted in our desire to help educators." By way of support. NBC's program director produced a testimonial from Henry L. Mencken: "The pedagogs now have all the time they can fill profitably-and more. Their programs are puerile and dull. There is no evidence that they would do any better if they had all day." Most notable witness of the week in behalf of more Education...
...unable to place him satisfactorily, will do well to take him as he comes, wrinkle no foreheads over the question of his "sincerity." Though his unrelieved company in the guise of human soul may be at times a little wearing, as a wide-eyed observer his comments are never dull. Confessing his inability to make the most of sightseeing, apropos of a visit to India, he exclaims: "How did a closer acquaintance with elephants really profit me? What did I get out of it? Only that which I noted involuntarily: the elephants had a womanly walk which reminded...
...dull monotony of a class in German A was broken momentarily yesterday as one of the readers stumbled upon this rather savory bit of stage directions encountered in a play they were reading: "Kussen sich. Es lautet. Sie springen...
...anonymous critics show a notable and significant poverty of adjectives. There are, in fact, only two categories into which Harvard courses appear to be divisible, the "interesting" and "enthusiastic" on the one hand, and the "dull", "uninteresting," or "boring" on the other. There is an inescapable impression that the writers are asking much of the instructor and little of themselves. It is not, apparently, so much a question "What can I learn?", as "How can I be kept awake?" It seems to be implied that the college teacher should be a sort of pastry-cook providing well-seasoned morsels...
...whatever their opinion. Their restraint in such matters is inherent in the code of equality and polite intercourse that has superseded the older pedagogical autocracy. If undergraduates appreciate this newer spirit of fraternity and informality there is an obligation to reciprocate. But perhaps they would find such a course dull and uninteresting. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...