Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot spoke in part as follows: War for the private soldier or sailor is at best a dull, coarse, squalid business It can not have any attraction for you, and yet the question-Shall I volunteer?- may become a pressing one within a few weeks or months. I shall discuss that question from the student's point of view...
...Society's play, Spontania, which went off last evening, was fair considering that the first act had been rehearsed only once with the orchestra and the second act not at all. The music was bright and catchy throughout and the dancing was very good, the libretto, however, was dull and pointless. The music and dancing bid fair to be the leading features at the regular performances. The costumes and scenery were very artistic. T. Stensland '98 and W. S. Parker '99 as Bungus, King of Spontania and Corcoran Van Brunt, Professor of Histeria at Harvard University, respectively, were very natural...
...first half Pennsylvania put up a dull, listless game but in the second half with the wind in her favor she braced up and made twelve of her twenty points, depending almost entirely on "guards-back...
...editorial of the current number of the Advocate sets a criterion for contributions which it is sincerely to be hoped will be held to in future. The writer classes a large proportion of his contributions as "Soft Melancholy, Dull Despairing and Dramatically Tragic." He might have added Weirdly Foolish and Sentimentally Tiresome. Unfortunately many past stories of the Advocate have been one or all of these...
...years after tries to tell the story of the "battle ob de Wappahanook," is a piece of blithering nonsense calculated to make a sane man doubt his own sanity, even as he wipes away the tears of laughter. So secure seats at once and drive dull care away and spend an evening with Gilmore and Leonard and the little Yellow Kid in "Hogan's Alley...