Word: dismaler
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...writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport, "the neglecter of his lesson, with his fine clothes, his gay air, and genteel manners, and the fame of his merry-makings." Dismal are his conclusions drawn from the contrast. The author treats his text under the following sub-heads: 1. "We are an insulated community;" 2. "College is a place where the great purpose of all is apt to be forgotten, and their most valuable possession - i. e., time - to be unappreciated...
With noisy glee in that poor dismal...
...instructor. In a course like this, when some of the finest dramatic and poetic passages in English literature are met with, we should naturally expect some attempt at elocution, or, at least, some interest in trying to read well. But the fact is that nowhere is heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would be of considerable advantage to the interest of the course if some means could be taken, during this second half-year, to improve the standard of the reading...
...fall, the players were allowed to conduct themselves as they pleased until the next season came round. The result was that they had to spend most of the time before the first game in trying to worry themselves back into decent physical condition. With some it was a dismal failure, and injuries, contracted through their neglect, at the outset almost destroyed their usefulness in the important games that followed. A light but steady practice in the gymnasium during the winter, and some regular out-door training in the spring and summer, is what our players must come to if Harvard...
...striking fact that many plays that are well received in Boston meet with but little success elsewhere. This was well seen in "The Colonel," which drew crowded houses at the Museum, and in many other cities, Philadelphia especially, was a dismal failure...