Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sense of idiom. But such annoyances are perhaps only inevitable growing pains, and they do not cancel one's satisfaction in such evidences of intellectual activity as Mr. Seldes's eassy undoubtedly presents. The only piece of verse in the number, Mr. Greene's "The Heritage," is flat and prosaic, but has not the clearness of good prose. The editorial on "Undergraduate Literature" is sensible; but the Board should prohibit the use of the phrase "in the final analysis" from in at least every second issue...
...fourth place, do one thing at a time and you will never have to wonder why your studies are suffering. Then your standing at the Office and among the fellows will be good. Taking one thing at a time is, it is true, a prosaic way of doing things, but it is a way that has proved itself right. Your success will depend much upon your earnestness of purpose, which can be secured only from whole-hearted attention to the business in hand...
Scofield Thayer contributes some graceful "Anapaests" and there are verses by J. D. Adams and C. H. Weston, both in the freer forms now in vogue. Neither fully escapes the danger of such verse--the prosaic--but both have something to say and say some of it well...
...litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre in actual attainment for the Phi Beta Kappa. They are men of ideas, and (which is quite as important) leisure As graduates, X may be President of the United States and Y the head of a railroad-for such things have been: as undergraduates...
Many a care-free undergraduate whose studies are his least concern assumes that a miraculous transformation will take place in his habits after he has "settled down to work." He looks on college as a pleasant interlude between the seclusion of his schooldays and the prosaic realities of a business world. He hears too frequently that his undergraduate years are to be the gayest and freest of his life, and he does not hesitate to devote them to the pursuit of pleasure. This undergraduate is, fortunately, one of a rather small type, and his ideas of fun are frequently strangely...