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...first spring football practice scarcely enough men for two teams appeared on the field. This is a deplorable state of affairs, since this year of all years the prospects for a championship team are very dull. We can leave no stone unturned this year, all details must be attended to. There is now no reason in the world for a feeling of over-confidence or indifference toward football...
...Class Day ceremonies in the Stadium seem to me to be singularly monotonous and inconclusive. Except for a more or less witty Ivy Oration and the very pretty slinging of streamers and confetti there is nothing but a dull series of cheers. Since this occasion is largely a reunion of graduates, and since even among undergraduates only a part of the Freshmen are not supposed to have seen it before, could not some scheme be devised by which this ceremony could be made more entertaining to all present? I submit this to the serious consideration of the 1915 Committee...
...Clod." Here the acting was so good as to make the illusion complete, and one became absorbed wholly in the story. It is a tale of the Civil War, but that threadbare theme appears for once in a new and surprising form. The principal character a woman too dull to apprehend the great meanings of the conflict, too apathetic to be moved by the peril of thirty thousand men, is by an insult which would seem comparatively trivial to others, but which wounds her only pride, suddenly turned into a fury of righteousness, and, without knowing it, becomes a national...
...turn down the page at "modern." From the editorial announcement of officers for the ensuing year to Mr. Dazy's rediscovery of Spenser, the contents are what the advertisers often call "up to the minute." Now modernity may cover a multitude of sins, literary or otherwise, but it precludes dullness; and the current Advocate is anything but dull...
...reviewer is not convinced that American novels are as bad as Mr. Seldes believes, nor is he much enlightened by such a paradox as this: "They offer vividness, interest, lightness of touch, superficial interest; What perverse tenth muse broods over them, then, that they result only in stupidity, dullness, vanity, and vexation of spirit?" Can a vivid and interesting book be at the same time stupid and dull? Yet the article shows the author an acute observer of literary matters, with a pronounced taste of his own. His chief fault is an excessive eagerness to appear grown up and sophisticated...