Word: dulle
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...With the war on, the navy demands our interest, whether or not it has been directed that way before. Our naval program, in the planning of which Secretary Roosevelt was invaluable, promises to lift our sea forces to a position worthy of the United States. It will be no dull dissertation this afternoon when the man behind our naval guns speaks. It will be no small audience which gathers in the New Lecture Hall, for Harvard men, above all things, like leaders...
Then comes another "war" story--with nothing in it about warfare; then a poem about "the 'pyrus' of the Nile" (we take this to be some new-fangled allegory on those famous banks); then another poem about "our reckless youth," as brilliant as the dullest of the dull spots in a certain older poet; and then a one-act play which with twice as much dramatic spirit would have almost half enough for half...
...backs and ends. If we make good we win glory and distinction. The men whose duty it is to remain behind in college and in civil occupation of other kinds are the centre of the line. Theirs is the hard job. They plug along at dull work and if they make good, they receive no glory. But they receive what is infinitely more worthwhile, namely the inward satisfaction of having done the harder job; of having done it well without the inspiration or rewards...
...fixed course, they will become "mere onlookers, helpless to aid in the struggle. In some ways," he went on, "it is harder for us at home than for those who are fighting, for they have a concrete task before them, while we apparently have only a stale, dull, unimportant routine ahead...
...believe as other men believe because we are right and they are right; not because they are right and we are too dull to reason. So soon as our conceptions of existence become those of other men, however true in themselves they are, we in our own minds are untrue, and worse than the bravest liars...