Word: tediousness
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...breathed new life into the bygone idiom of poetic prose, and made it his own. Something should come of this. Mr. Hathaway, in his "Recollections of Reality", enlisted my sympathies with a corkscrew, and then began to alienate them with trout flies. Personally, I have always shunned as tedious any discussion of the superfluous and objectionable passion for hooking fish. But Mr. Hathaway broke down my prejudice with the delicate intimacy of his style, and I am forced to admit that I read him through to the end, and with much pleasure...
...deliberately combined many plays, and "out of a mass of documents" he has extracted "a limited number of situations" which he has put together "to make five subjects, each complete in itself and offering possibilities for production on the English and American stage." He has cut the "long, rather tedious dialogues" of the original and has "written rapid dramatic scenes giving an actor full opportunity to work himself into the spirit of the part". Working on that basis there is no reason why a Japanese student of English drama should not cut "Hamlet" of all its language, and leave only...
...ballot, according to the charter of the class" We answer: Simply because they realize the hopeless impotence of their isolated votes as compared with the united vote of those gentlemen who know, or think they know, the popular candidates. Furthermore, they do not wish to go through the tedious process of circulating a petition and soliciting signatures...
...time to do away with a few of them. Two courses would have twice the value of four as a minimum for the senior. If the student is to be interested in his reading he must have time to be so. He cannot be while his life is one tedious examination after another. An ounce of confidence in the undergraduate, an ounce of trust in his power to educate himself, would do more for him and for education than heavy over-doses of the milk bottle lecture system. Incidentally, it would be a splendid act of faith. B. PRESCOTT...
When professors postpone reservation until after the announcement is made, they are at best driven to the tedious expedient of having recall-cards mailed to student borrowers. Unless at the time of the assignment reading matter is available for use by the entire class, the majority of the course must labor under a serious disadvantage. The student finds difficulties enough in his academic work without being hampered by the mechanical task of book-hunting...