Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...live topics to write about. The writer says truly that experience is necessary, "for nothing is heeded which has not the ring of actual knowledge." He goes on to say that the college man exhausts his stock of college experiences in his Freshman and Sophomore years and then "grows stale...
While it may be true that the writers of today are not college-bred men, the statement that undergraduate literary work fails to attain a higher standard because the would-be writer "grows stale" seems open to doubt. Is not this failure rather due to a somewhat prevailing tendency among young writers to be ambitious to consider subjects which lie outside of their little life experiences, and to which they can at best impart but a supperficial atmosphere? To be concrete, college literature tends to be too ambitious. If the undergradate aspirant would narrow his point of view and condescend...
...comment on undergraduate writing. "We come here with no experience whatever, and in this interval, when experience is at once lacking and inaccessible, we sit us down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences. Next he 'goes stale,' and further effort as long as he stays in college is useless." This, howver, may not be generally accepted as the condition of the normal undergraduate writer...
What has been the cause of the sudden falling off of the 'Varsity Nine after beginning the season so well is difficult to say. Whether the men have become stale, or whether they have been overconfident, the cause is just now immaterial. The team has played fast baseball; they are perfectly capable of doing so today; and they can go onto the field knowing that the University will turn out in force to see them redeem themselves...
Yesterday the crew went into strict training for a week and a half or two weeks, the object being to keep the men in good condition without getting them stale...