Word: boredome
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There are in the University curriculum a number of courses, distinctly too large in our opinion, which have in them preponderant elements of uselessness, boredom, unnecessary accumulations of worthless facts for the purpose of "mental discipline", and other equally unpleasant characteristics. The desirability of freedom from the ills of the lecture system for all members of the University has been advanced so often in these columns that it will scarcely bear repetition for the efforts have proved unavailing to say the least...
...perceive the possibilities of such contemplation in the particular case of the American people. The present American frame of mind is hardly a thing to be admired; but its future is promising. It is not beyond the limits of the possible that the present American example of stupid boredom is but a transitional period of intertia, a static state of incubation, preparing the way for an eventual elevation to the heights of serene contemplation. To this end is the "Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation...
...noted by several of the professional spectators that every English playwright has one plot in his system that he must unloose before he is happy. This is the story of the somewhat battered woman who marries into complete respectability and utter boredom (Tanqueray). Mr. Coward has now written it fairly well...
...barely off the college campus. That college athletics are beginning to does some of their glamor for the undergraduates (though not yet for the alumni) seems possible if for no other reason than that a change in fashion is about due a rising sense of boredom against so artificial and absurd and top heavy an institution. We note, for instance, an editorial in the Ohio State Candle for October in which college athletics receive a mereless keelhauling. The Nation...
...level of instruction. There is a bewildering mass of miscellaneous facts to be mastered which from their very nature can not be too systematically coordinated. The course will provoke enthusiasm from those few who have a decided bent for this sort of thing and from the rest the semi-boredom with which the majority of students always regard a course so conducted as to demand much memorizing at the expense of creative thought...