Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...days when men saw such limbs at every turn. The striking realism of the French pictures of the present day will remind you of hundreds of things which indolence will permit you neither to think for yourself, nor to dig out of the endless pages of a stupid book...
...have had several complaints which it seems our duty to notice, and find no fault but with the system itself. We refer to telling men under examination of their "suspension," "conditions," and the like. Because a man is a poor scholar, unfortunate, or stupid, or call it what you please, it does not follow that he has no feeling whatever, and could hear of his dismissal or leave of absence during a trying ordeal, and work as well afterward. It is not fair to say that the man brings this on himself, and unless he had neglected his studies, disregarded...
...there was nothing else to take, but with an earnest desire to do their work thoroughly and faithfully. Our professors have written books and essays of great value, but, under the present system, they have little leisure for this, and their enthusiasm must be almost extinguished after hearing a stupid recitation, or giving deductions for a series of "deads." Cannot some Hopkins be found to aid Harvard in completing that work which she has already so nobly begun...
...CONSIDERATE Sophomore recently declined to write, on the ground that the columns were already filled with stupid articles. We would advise any reader not to set down any oasis in the desert as coming from this individual...
...noises that disturb the college precincts sometimes till mid-night; and we heartily concur with him in longing for a cessation of the various shouts, cat-calls, snatches of popular melodies, the repetition of men's names in loudest tones from distant buildings, and, not the least annoying, the stupid explosion of gunpowder in different forms. Work on examinations and late hours set the nerves of all of us on the stretch, and interruptions such as the above, although at other times harmless, become horribly annoying. Blue lights are very pretty, and bonfires mildly exciting, but cannon-crackers are neither...