Word: tediousness
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There is every prospect of the meeting to-day being very uninteresting. There are no entries in the heavy weight sparring and only two men are in the middle weight, which, with the tug-of-war will constitute the only enjoyable part of the meeting. The wrestling is inevitably tedious if the men are well matched, and farcical if they are not. With this gloomy outlook before us, the least the stewards can do is to make everything go off as quickly as possible, and to see that there are no unnecessary delays between the events. One more thing also...
...second half year begins Monday with many bright things in view. During the tedious mid-years the students have been "holding hard," to use a familiar figure, while the faculty got ready for this fresh "heave." That the vigor of the latter has been increased by the respite, is shown in the unusually attractive Calendar for the coming week. The more popular announcements include one of the Chaucer Readings by Prof. Briggs, so much enjoyed last year: Mr. O. W. Holmes' lecture on "The Law"; Dr. Farnham's "Health and Strength"; Prof. Hill's Lecture to freshmen on "English Authors...
Play will be continued to-day, beginning at 10 o'clock, and all players are requested to be on hand promptly as the management wishes that the tournament be finished without any tedious delay. It is expected that the tournament will be nearly finished by night...
...were required to read before presenting themselves. Of these, not more than 100-to make a generous estimate-were creditable to either writer or teacher. This year I did not read the books, but one who did makes this report: "Few were remarkably good, and few extraordinarily bad; a tedious mediocrity was everywhere...
...this tedious mediocrity which has amazed me year after year. In spelling, punctuation, and grammar, some of the essays are a little worse than the mass, and some a great deal better; but in other respects there is dead-level, unvaried by a fresh thought or an individual expression. Almost all the writers use the same common-place vocabulary-a very small one-in the same confused way. One year, after reading 200 or 300 compositions on "The Story of the Tempest," I found myself in such profound ignorance of both plot and characters that I had to read...