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...they point out, 374 votes may be a small number to be the first elected, but that is 374 more than they got last year when they avoided an election--by disqualifying on technical grounds the petition of a distinguished Harvard alumnus! But now, disqualifying individual petitions is too tedious a task for them, so they plan to preserve their salaries and control by spending $15,000 (of the members' money) to eliminate the elections which threaten them so, even at the risk of violating chapter 156B sec. 50 of the Mass. Gen. Laws, which provides that "no class...
Crimson hockey fans witnessed two separate games. The first 56:48 consisted of the most tedious and sloppiest hockey that Harvard has played all year. The final 3:12 saw an incredible Crimson charge that overcame a 2-0 deflict to snatch away from an inspired Eh squad what would have been the biggest upset in the ECAC this year...
From a fan's viewpoint, it was the most tedious game of the season, but it was enough to keep intact Harvard's perfect ECAC (11-0) and Ivy League (6-0) records, as the Crimson skated to an easy 4-2 victory over a docile Dartmouth squad last night at Watson...
Horowitz was happy there. He enjoyed the long hours of mindless work, and still does today. "Science is far more tedious than people realize," he says. "But I have a high boredom threshold, and a low thrill threshold. Looking through a telescope might sound exciting, but you're not watching galaxies explode. There are very exciting times, but those times are few and far between. You have to be happy in between...
...concentrated more on only one or two productions, carefully analyzing the dynamics of the collective creative process that lay behind a particular play, he might have provided some more insight into the way a hit musical is mounted. As it is, he has included just enough detail to be tedious, but not enough to be interesting...