Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college freshman to relieve the generally depressing tedium of dining hall meals is to throw butter. More genteel, more instructive is a practice lately instituted in the freshman dining hall of the Harvard Union. Students of French and German, it became known last week, may sit at tables where the menu is printed and the conversation carried on in French and German, with professors present to keep the conversation alive. English is barred. Exquisite touch: the waitresses speak French and German. So successful have the linguistic tables become that it is planned for other students of other languages at polyglot...
This Cambridge gambling seems to be patterned on the Harlem model which picks its winner by the Stock Exchange figures for the day. Various applications might be made by others who seek to relieve the tedium of daily duties. Commuters might bet on the time, of arrival of their train, stenographers on the number of letters written during the day, and librarians on the total of books issued. --New York Times...
...writer in the Saturday Review of Literature has commented on the weekend exodus from colleges with less satire and more acumen than was displayed in a recent article on the same subject in the Harkness Hoot. Various expedients have been suggested recently to relieve the tedium of the average academic Sabbath, but the one factor that is most in tune with the scholastic scheme of things has escaped observation...
Through The Night is a very dull and tiresome little piece which starts lamely and concludes likewise, with moments of tedium during which spectators wonder what the actors can find to say next. It is billed as a comedy, the work of Samuel...
...also they permit the instructor to form some basis of judgment as to the ability of those in his course. Two sets of hour examinations during a time when studying is much more intent are justifiable on neither one of these accounts. The bulk of this unnecessary tedium is still in a very imminent future, but there is yet time to discard these abuses and to arrive at some more efficient and equitable arrangement of the second semester...