Word: boredom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reaches the presidency of the paper, he has one short half-year of life and then passes on to make way for a successor; his skill is necessarily gained late. These are reasons why most undergraduate publications have only streaks of success and long waste spaces of desolation and boredom; and conversely, the writing of graduate students and younger members of the instructing staff gives the Harvard Magazine an advantage of which it is unseemly that it should inferentially boast...
...which it flowed at the time of the Renaissance enthusiasm for the ancient world, it is undoubtedly true that the pendulum has swung too far towards the so-called "practical" subjects. Living implies more than efficiency and abundance of material goods; it includes the prime necessity of escaping boredom. Mr. Lodge's plea needs hearing at Harvard, where the number of men concentrating in the classics has ranged in recent years between twelve and twenty...
...attitude of more or less bored indifference to mere brute athletics, while feeling a smug assurance of our own enthusiastic virile support of our teams. And yet, year after year, we go to the great game and submit to being out-sung and out cheered by these disciples of boredom...