Word: boredome
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...once Mr. Monteux's genius as program-maker seemed to desert him, when, yesterday afternoon, he piled Franck upon Franck to the extent of boredom. The hundredth anniversary of Franck's birth must, I suppose, be celebrated in some way; it would seem however, as if a finer impression of Franck's genius would result from a program in which he was not so overworked...
None of these conditions is inevitable. To be bored--or to assume boredom--is merely putting an insult upon your own intelligence in picking your company; the other two are merely the result of inexcusable mental laziness...
...shadowland fringe of the lecture room raises just enough counter pulsations in the atmosphere to necessitate a delicate focussing of the outer ear toward the lecturer as a sunflower to the sun, or else induces that semi-sonambulent state of psychological detachment from the boredom of the immediate intellectual rationing. The dodge for those who care is to plead astigmatism or a punctured tympanum; for those who don't, some A's or B's notes or a conference with the Widow...
...somehow, it is not routine; each day the same thing seems different. Wherein lies this difference? At Gopher Prairie, Carol Kennicott found doing the same thing every day boredom incarnate; but it is not so here, Because, at bottom we are living in an intellectual community; in Gopher Prairie Carol sound no intellectual life, and tried in vain to stimulate it. Here it seems almost as though a great many were trying to avoid it; in spite of them however, it persists, and on the solid foundations of this intellectual existence is based the apparently monotonous round of everyday activity...
...University Glee Club; but, in addition to his praise, there is a note of doubt in regard to the success of the club from a "utilitarian" aspect. "Such a concert as the Harvard Glee Club is now giving might cause the ordinary school boy to flee in utter boredom," he says. In this way, an intellectual victory may become a practical defeat in turning away from the University desirable students. The secondary purpose of a Glee Club Tour,--the furthering of the interests of the University in territories where it is little known,--would become a loss rather than...