Word: ennui
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Lord Stonbury, who is the centre of an artificial social group, is just about to commit suicide partly from financial losses and partly from what appears to be chronic ennui when the Faun appears. Led by a desire to know what men are like, the Faun has come to England from a convenient Mediterranean country, and agrees to give Lord Stonbury tips on the horse-races provided that the Lord will introduce him into society. The first act closes on the rather humorous attempts of the Faun to adopt the dress and manners of conventional society...
...further reflection that both colleges may mutually profit by the "exhilarating (not exhilirating) novelty" of Harvard's winning three great events. In Mr. Edgell's story "Two Operas" I find a pleasing old fashioned note--a story straightforwardly told and getting somewhere without baffling allusiveness or the world-worn ennui of two decades of life on this planet. The plot is a trifle better than the telling, but that fault can be remedied. A slightly cynical ending does not destroy the general simplicity. More ambitious and more difficult is the flight of "Tobias Medetates," the most important effort of this...
Suffice it to say that the volume is on sale at the Co-operative, and that a perusal of its contents cannot fail to charm away the ennui which is liable to come to all of us at this season of the year...
...this I say with full recognition of the "hideousness, the immense ennui" of life passed in correcting themes. I should also like to say, without presumption, if possible, that the comments of one of our instructors leave little to be desired...
...this faculty-student body. Of course the department of athletics will furnish more or less material for discussion, and student government at times of great rejoicing will also be a fruitful theme. If, however, after having disposed of the pressing demands of these two, the conference becomes subject to ennui, there is another field of labor to which the members can turn with profit. This field is none other than the old marking system now in vogue, and the evils of cramming and cribbing that are inseparably connected with it. A comparison of the different methods for marking used...