Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...themselves unable, after a few weeks of college life, to believe as they used to; but there is no harm in this. A man should be encouraged to think of Christianity; for it is not worth thinking of, it can be but a poor thing. Again, many think Christianity dull; but this is not true in fact or in theory. Not only is it most interesting in itself, but theoretically its chief end is to cure dullness. It is the lack of Christianity which makes a life dull...
...very early times there were only vagrant performances,-wandering musicians going from place to place, and playing and reciting in castle halls. Later the church, seeing that through plays was the most efficient means of approaching the people, appropriated the drama. The performances given by it were allegorical and dull, the devil who worked largely in these moralities, alone giving them any liveliness. This continued till the people wanted something more real and natural, and began to develop the drama themselves. They however neglected the unities of action, place and time of the ancient classic drama, and constructed...
...Pierre la Rose. It is a charmingly worded and sympathetic character-sketch, but after carrying one gently up to an apparent climax it leaves one in the air, with nothing to break one's fall, and the return to this mundane sphere is accompanied by something very like a dull thud...
...courts can be used and the Weld Boat Club is open, this difficulty is overcome and there is a variety and pleasure in outdoor exercise. But it requires not a little will power to keep up a constant attendance at the gymnasium when the work there consists of a dull routine of exercise on various machines with no definite object in view, and many a man gives it up after the first week. And yet this exercise is greatly needed...
...good chance or getting a better idea of how the game of cricket is played. One of the reasons why the college takes so little interest in the game is that most of the men do not understand the fine points of the playing. Almost any game would seem dull to those who could not appreciate what the players were striving for; and many a game which in its crudeness is rather slow, becomes remarkably interesting when the more subtle plays are understood. Cricket at Harvard seems to suffer from this very ignorance among the students of the real skill...