Word: dull
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feet in length. The general appearance of the structure is in keeping with the older Harvard buildings and the colonial type of architecture has been followed out in the exterior design. The base of the building is built of granite blocks and the three upper stories of dull Harvard brick with limestone trimmings. A limestone cornice adds the necessary finish to the front of the building. The structure is three stories high, with a basement all but three feet above the ground and a sub-basement entirely dark...
...Redfield, M. C., on "The New Industrial Organization," the other is by A. H. Whitman on "Opportunities in Business Training." Mr. Redfield's article, which is the second of a series on "The College Man and Current Problems," is sane and well balanced, but somewhat dull and pointless. Mr. Whitman presents a convincing argument in favor of the training furnished by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. While Mr. Whitman is convincing, he is over modest, for, if the training is as useful as he says it is, it is safe to predict that the School will do more...
...said that if service to one's fellow-man was to be the expression and fulfillment of one's religious nature, it must have behind it more than human sanction, there must be a spiritual as well as a human impulse. Not to serve is to die. Men grow dull, remote and old in the accumulation of riches or of knowledge which they do not share. That youth who is consecrated to this religion of service, giving himself to his God, as he finds God in his fellowmen, that youth is endowed with life's most durable and most precious...
...High ceilings and perfect lighting conditions will be features of the basement proper, which are possible by having all but four feet above the ground. Its walls are of gray granite and the deep pit is constructed of solid concrete. All three upper stories will be made of dull Harvard brick. The latest improvements in ventilation will be installed and it will be heated by the central plant in the Peabody Museum. With the exception of the sub-basement, the building will be divided into a large number of small rooms, arranged especially for individual research. One of these will...
...will read with a tingle of excitement the first article in the magazine: Professor Royce's Phi Beta Kappa oration on "James as a Philosopher." It is exhilarating to discover a tribute to life, instead of the usual dull summary of dead perfections. Where the criticism is keenest it is most flattering to the distinguished philosopher whose death we have all recently lamented, and Professor James would himself have been the first to relish the candor of this study, as he would have been the first to disparage his own eminence as its subject. If Professor James embodies the American...