Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...motion by Mr. Armes, that Yale be not admitted was lost. Mr. Duncan moved that Yale be admitted; Mr. Sheffield amended: "That Harvard accept Yale's challenge to a race. The race, however, to take place over the Charles River course." After a tedious debate, the amendment was carried with but small opposition, to the considerable surprise of many present, and the amended motion was carried unanimously. The meeting broke up at nine o'clock with cheers for Captain Keyes...
...large and valuable library was found after a long and tedious research in the ruins of Nineveh. From this library we get our information about the knowledge of the Assyrians. The only other country whose history and civilization dates back to 4000 years before Christ besides Assyria, is Egypt. Most Assyrian monuments were built of brick, and therefore have almost entirely disappeared...
...difficult motions by the strings was perfection itself and could only be accomplished by strings such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra possesses. The Concerto for pianoforte was performed by Mme. Anna Clark-Steiniger in rather a lifeless manner. The Concerto is thoroughly Mozart in character and rather tedious than interesting. Mme. Steiniger was very well received by the audience, and was given an encore. The Hungarian rhapsody, No. 2. of Liszt, was also well rendered, the weird character of the piece being carefully observed by the director. The Symphony in D m'nor by R. Volkmann, has been heard...
...third act, with lightning, stage thunder, dark woods, and all the necessary adjuncts. With the exception of the bull-fighters, dance at the end of Act I and the Tarantella at the end of Act II, there is little to raise the performance above a tedious mediocrity...
...want to force anybody to hear tedious lectures; I've cut many a lecture myself, and know well enough that hard reading and industry in his own room are in the end more important, perhaps, to a student than hearing university courses. But I cannot persuade myself that the industry is to be found in the case of those who attend no lectures the first two or four semesters, and calculate from the very be ginning on the ability of a paid "coach" to cram them up for the examination. The number of these men, however, is very large - among...