Word: idler
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...final sentences are worth quoting: "Remember that a college course is not an education: it is the opportunity for one, and is what you make it. It can deliver a man at the end, blankly unaware of the high things among which he has been moving, a vacant idler, or a stupid book-man, a heavy-witted athlete, a timid nonentity, or a snob already stifled in the stale air of exclusiveness; or it can send him out free of the great brotherhood of educated men, stirred with the challenge of life, the life, of ideas and no less...
...author goes on to say: "The figures go far to show that the Harvard undergraduate is not the arrant idler he is sometimes supposed to be. On the other hand, they cannot be said to lend much support to the belief that he is more studious than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago. . . . The fact seems to be that the undergraduate studies about as much now as the undergraduate of his father's time studied." The working time of the present ordinary undergraduate could be increased, but the boy does not go to college merely to study. The public...
Members of the Radcliffe Idler Club last night presented "Sunbonnets" to a very appreciative audience. The play, a farce comedy, by Miss Marian D. Campbell, death with the complications arising from two rival missionary societies of a village church. The characters were accurately drawn and the dialect was natural. The cast was well selected, Miss Campbell, as Mrs. Du Bois, a summer boarder, and Miss Katherine Searle, as Mrs. Butterfield, the hostess, being particularly good. The performance, however, suffered slightly from over acting, a fault common to amateur theatricals. Miss Mabel W. Daniels sang between the two acts...
...Idler Club of Radcliffe will present on March 2 a farce in two acts entitled "Sunbonnets." Miss M. W. Daniels will sing between the acts...