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...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...
Lifeless, useless, stale, forlorn...
...under way here, and a short account of them may not be uninteresting or uninstructive to the captains of the Harvard clubs. They are rowed during the first week of December, although the 'Varsity race is not till April. The reason is, that men get "rowed out" and utterly "stale" if they are kept at it without intermission, and a three or four months' absolute rest from work at the oar is found most beneficial in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Any man, however poor an oar, has the right to ask his (college) captain to send...
...yellow face of the Atlantic, the June number of which is now before us. Mr. Aldrich has closed his "Prudence Palfrey" in a strikingly original and unexpected manner; and, as a whole, it is, decidedly, one of the most readable of American novels. Whatever Mr. Aldrich writes is never stale and never dull, and we hope and believe that this will not be the last of his contributions to the Atlantic. "Mose Evans" also concludes with this number; G. P. Lathrop has a paper on the Growth of the Novel; J. C. Layard writes from personal experience of Morphine; poetry...
...This stale gibe is by no means funny, and is very ungentlemanly. We all remember how pluckily that crew struggled against adverse fortune last year, and should think Cornell would be on better terms with Williams, - having cultivated her acquaintance so carefully in the race...