Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shout goes up--this is an age of specialization; a man must live. Yet there is a perfectly good answer to these objections. The young Chaucers will take care of themselves, never fear; for the rest of us a consciousness that all specialization and no play makes Jack a dull boy will be necessary. There are those who often drop into the Farnsworth room for an hour or two, those who go to the Copley Theatre as well as the movies, those who find a great deal of pleasure in reading unusual books from pure curiosity, not because they think...
Knocking out 23 hits to a ragged fielding combination the University baseball team easily defeated the Colby nine by a score of 20-0 at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. After a dull start the Crimson batters found the ball, and slowly increasing the pressure on the visiting pitcher, piled up 15 runs and forced him from the mound. But at this point the Colby fielders fell down and a series of errors gave the University nine a chance to make the most of several hits. The Crimson fielding, however, was flawless and this together with steady battery work kept...
...dull, conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes! They gang in stirks and come out asses...
...some, college is an amusing four years, to some it means a Phi Beta Kappa key or an education, and to still others it is only four years of dull preparation for a life of banking or insurance. The last attitude has been increasing, to judge by the hue and cry recently raised about the passing of the old "cultural college". That business men, however, regard colleges as mere training schools for their assistants and successors becomes rather doubtful in view of Mr. Emerson's article in the current issue of "The Independent...
...vice-president of a New York City bank he states that no college man succeeds in business who would not have succeeded anyway. What is more, a course in Liberal Arts may even dull the business acumen and clog the mind with things not needed. But that is as it should be according to Mr. Emerson, for college trains not for life but for living. The four "wasted" years should not pack the mind with encyclopedic facts or change the brain into an animated Spanish dictionary. Instead they should serve to pile up a store, a credit account of satisfaction...