Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Syracusan contains articles on "Lord Beacons-field, "Socialism," "The Study of Music," such as one might find in almost any other of our exchanges, and equally stale, flat, and unprofitable; but with one pleasing difference, that none of them is over a column and a half in length. When platitudes are the order of the day, those who write them most briefly deserve most credit and most thanks. In the Bowdoin Orient we find an essay of four columns in length on Emerson, which tells us nothing new, and suggests as little. We should have more patience with it, were...
...have decided to row, if possible, the English Universities, is due on the one hand to the graduates, for without their pecuniary aid we could have done nothing; and to the Crew of '78, on the other hand, for without their hearty enthusiasm the project would have fallen flat...
...raising with security to the stock, to find a more fitting locality for his operations. We believe that the nearness of a pigsty is an absolutely new subject of complaint among the college press, and we hail it as such. The article called "He was from Harvard" is very flat, besides being extremely questionable in point of taste. We hope that the Advocate can survive the severe grind it contains. Among the items we learn that a Young Men's Infidel Association has been started, with a membership of thirty. O wicked, depraved Cornell! A pigsty in the college yard...
...Cornell Review this month is "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." All the articles are heavy and uninteresting. Our advice to the Editors is, to copy the Yale Lit. and give more light reading...
...expect. He teaches many things which those unfamiliar with the subject could not find out by themselves, and does his best to impart to the students his own evident interest and enthusiasm; but as he himself acknowledges, he takes no pains with the reading, which accordingly is weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable beyond description...