Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remedy for tedious section meetings is not easily to be found; the efforts of even competent instructors are nullified by a lack of cooperation on the part of the class. But one very obvious improvement suggests itself. Section meetings are not now looked upon as opportunities for intelligent discussion, but rather as occasions for the writing of weekly or fortnightly examinations. As long as a course is conducted under this plan there is little chance that the theoretical purpose of the section meeting will be fulfilled. Since there seems to be no entirely defensible ground for frequent quizzes in sections...
...past years, the custom has been too much to perform Brooks House duties as necessary and unavoidable routine--tedious work which one owes to the community. That is a totally false idea,--Brooks House work can be made more interesting than any other activity in the University, if once it can be made to strike the fancy of the undergraduates, and if once the officers make it their sole "outside" activity...
Last week the Reparations Commission Sub-Committee of Experts deputed a Drafting Committee to begin the tedious work of reducing to concrete English and French texts the broad principles upon which the American, British and French experts had already agreed...
Iconoclast, we repeat, has not written a book of enduring value. But anyone who can bear to put up with tedious psychological analysis in order to reach a fascinating and jauntily-written story underneath should read this biography, whose author brings to his subject at least a sense of sympathy and understanding which does much to excuse the absence of other biological virtues...
...frosty. The interior of Memorial is repellant, the position of Memorial, since the center of college life has shifted to Massachusetts Avenue and beyond, is unfortunate. Finally it is in human nature--or at least American nature--to be nomadic. Even to eat constantly at home becomes tedious and to eat at only one place in college soon grows unbearable. Naturally, therefore, students prefer not to pay for board by the year (with involved methods of signing off) when they know that they will not eat every meal at that one place for even two weeks at a stretch...