Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...EDITORS OF THE HERALD: It is a cold, disagreeable day here, and I cannot help being glad I am not at Wellesley, for it is doubly dismal there on a rainy day. Everything is shrouded and dull, and lessons seem to go wrong. Since the death of Mr. Durant, founder and munificent patron of the college, we have had quite a change in the management of affairs. A long vacation was voted the president, and our professor of history was made vice-president, and is becoming very popular among the students. Some time ago a party of Harvard men came...
...long-promised musical events of the season have been given this week. The musical eccentricity," "Robinsonade," has not been saved from insufferable stupidity, to our taste, by the clever adaptation of Mr. Childs, and the laudable efforts of the actors. It is truly Germanic in its dismal wit. "The Lark," music by Strauss, text ("Le Reveillon") by Meilhac and Halevy, is quite another thing. The music is very pretty, the adaptation of the libretto very well done, while both singing and acting are more than fairly good...