Word: nauseam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such statement incurs the dangerous distinction instinctively given to all "personalities." There certainly should now be allowed no possibility for such criticisms to gain credence. To one who avails himself conscientiously of the training afforded by the work of the English department, such a criticism simply repeats ad nauseam the vague and far from scholarly discontent of lax students...
...these events? The newspapers do little to aid us. A polo match, a scandal, or a murder is honored with as prominent a place in their columns, and is as heavily leaded as the account of the downfall of a ministry. In their editorials party wranglings find play ad nauseam. In the maze of news, rumor, gossip and scandal, he is indeed clear sighted who can find his way. The need and usefulness of a course in contemporaneous history will hardly be questioned. Whether such a course is feasible and practicable, will be discussed later in these columns...