Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nearly a thousand undergraduates are preparing to give up a considerable position of their time and energy to prepare themselves for the service of their country against the time when they shall be called into action. Theirs is no slight sacrifice. They gladly accept the discipline and tedium of drilling and extra study to take advantage of the opportunities the College has placed before them--in the person of Captain Amann and others--to learn the art of war. And we justly admire the spirit and sense of duty which leads them to do this...
Neither of the stories is calculated to disturb the regularity of one's breathing; and yet each has deft touches of characterization. Mr. Davis's sketch of the professional female smuggler glimpses the tedium of a life of pretense in Parisian society. Mr. Rogers's description of editorial ethics on a juvenile newspaper, in spite of its hampering style, gives some amusing aspects of boy nature...