Word: tediousness
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...right way; either they have overdone it or they have not taken their exercise systematically. For the great majority of men the best work is regular light exercise on the pulley weights or with the wooden dumb-bells. But to some these methods seem slow and tedious. They desire to become strong in a few days, and so they try to lift heavy iron bells and perform feats upon the parallel and horizontal bars. The result of such a method of training naturally is that these men find themselves growing weaker instead of stronger and finally abandon gymnasium work altogether...
...Ange igue and Cleante, composed by J. A. Carpenter '97, was well rendered and enthusiastically received. The dance of the Egyptians during the second entr'acte was very pretty and well executed. The costumes were all appropriate. The ceremony of conferring the Doctor's degree was rather tedious, the apothecaries, surgeons, going off and coming on the stage too often...
...annual fall meeting of the Cycling Association which took place yesterday afternoon was not what would be called a brilliant success. There were but three events and as the same men contested in all three events there were necessarily long waits between the events which were very tedious. Only one half of the whole number of men entered showed...
Every man will have one Chinaman assigned to him, for whom he is solely responsible. The teaching is slow and sometime tedious in spite of the interest shown by the pupil and needs a patient teacher who will make it a point not to miss a single meeting. But when the apparently dull pupil has once mastered the elements of the language, then the progress is rapid, the Chinaman soon takes up the Bible, and well prepared by patient love of his teacher, he is readily led to grasp the truths of the Christian religion...
...schools have been allowed to use the track. There will be an important chang in the list of events this year which seems likely to make the meeting more interesting. Throwing the baseball will be dropped out and the one mile run substituted. The former event has always proved tedious and slow and the mile run will tend to enliven things. It seems probable that first place will go to Worcester High. This school had no trouble in winning the indoor winter meeting, its nearest competitor being Worcester Academy. Roxbury Latin is strong in the field events and promises...