Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pages, and the crude, undrilled comedians, do not amuse you at all. You yawn and look about you. Not far off is Smith, with open eyes and open mouth, enjoying himself to his heart's content. He catches your eye as the comic man gets off a pun as stupid as the jokes of a circus clown; and he leans across and remarks that it is bully. You smile and nod, and are pleased with the contrast between your own acute perception of the humorous and that of the Occidental intellect of Smith. Between the acts you meet Jones...
...When those are once passed, they see no reason for further exertion; and they are so anxious to acquaint themselves with the new phase of existence which they erroneously term life, that they find no time for anything else. Their college work is sure to be neglected. Their half-stupid, half-mischievous, wholly careless behavior in the recitation-rooms is sure to exasperate their tutors to the point of numerous warnings...
...grand was "Julius Caesar," and how stupid "Paul Revere...
These complaints, in general, are not especially violent, but they are decidedly stupid and monotonous, and the Faculty, if they read them, must be tired out by their frequency; hence, if they are ever written with any other purpose than to fill up the columns of the paper, that frequency could well afford to be lessened. To us, many of the Faculty's doings seem blamable; but we cannot or will not justly appreciate their reasons for thus acting, and would it not be better to devote an occasional column to the good deeds of the body, rather than half...
...GOOD GRACIOUS, chum! what shall I write about?" "Don't know, and don't care; it's sure to be stupid, anyhow, so don't spoil a good subject." "I guess I'll write on 'English and American Society.'" "What!!! Have n't you read the Advocate, on the 'limits of a college paper'? Don't you know that 'our paper should be filled exclusively with articles that have a connection with the college, - with the life here, the studies, the events of interest, that occur every day'?" "What these events of interest that happen every day may be, chum...