Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Compulsory attendance is based on the contrary idea--namely that to the average undergraduate education is distasteful enough to prevent his attendance at lectures, and that fear of eventual failure is not strong enough to counter balance this distastefulness. Incidentally dull and unpopular lecturers are spared the humiliation of speaking to empty benches...
...Judith is, for the most part, a tedious nuisance, in spite of the obvious care lavished upon her. But Tiny and George are convincing throughout. A good novel-better than most-even if neither Judith nor the author have yet discovered, apparently, that radical preachiness can be just as dull as any other brand...
...dance; that he finds grateful any bit which he can visualize. Conspicuous was yesterday's program, headed by the Seventh Symphony aptly, we think, dubbed by Wagner, "apotheosis of the dance"; and continuing through more specific apotheoses as conceived by Dukas and Strauss. Conspicuous also was Brahms, conspicuously dull and and diffuse, the one dry spot on an otherwise attractive program...
...Brahms variations seemed very varied and very dull, inevitably recalling Huneker's simile of Brahms and the odor of new-mown...
Because of the small amount of scrimmaging and the fact that the scrubs carried the ball almost continually, yesterday afternoon's practice of the University squad proved rather dull to the spectators on the sidelines in the Stadium. Breaking up the forward pass attempts of the second string squad consumed most of the time of Coach Fisher...