Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although the college jester may have applied Motley's phrase, "a sheet of infinite platitude," to some of the recent numbers of the Advocate,-and what magazine does not have its gay and its dull days?- certain it is that good old mother Advocate has succeeded in hammering several "golden grains of wit" into the issue of her estimable paper which appears today. It is one of the best of the numbers of this year...
...first winter meeting of the H. A. A., which took place in the Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday, was on the whole rather dull and uninteresting. Putting the shot was the first event, and there were but two entries, J. R. Finlay '91, and S. H. Evins, L. S. Finlay's first and best put was 39 ft. 10 in., which broke the Harvard indoor record of 37 ft. 10 1-2 in. Evins' best...
...Soudan" continues, during its third month, to attract large audiences at the Boston Theatre. The general excellence of the sensational piece is not announced during the first act, which is somewhat dull, but developes in those following. The scenery is especially good...
...varsity played a dull and unintereresting game on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon. The work of both nines was listless. Harvard's play was marked by Cummings' effective pitching and the general poor base-running. The base runners paid no attention to the coachers at all. Lafayette played a very fair game, but her fielders made some costly errors...
...game on Holmes yesterday was dull for the most part. but became interesting when Harvard began batting in the seventh inning. Howland hurt a finger in the preliminary practice and Evans was substituted. Three bases on balls in succession, a wild pitch and a passed ball, gave Harvard two runs at the start. Marlborough scored four in the same inning by a base on balls, three singles and Soule's muff of a popfly. After this no Harvard man got beyond first until the fifth inning, when the visitors became badly rattled and gave four runs on errors...