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...editorial of the current number of the Advocate sets a criterion for contributions which it is sincerely to be hoped will be held to in future. The writer classes a large proportion of his contributions as "Soft Melancholy, Dull Despairing and Dramatically Tragic." He might have added Weirdly Foolish and Sentimentally Tiresome. Unfortunately many past stories of the Advocate have been one or all of these...
...years after tries to tell the story of the "battle ob de Wappahanook," is a piece of blithering nonsense calculated to make a sane man doubt his own sanity, even as he wipes away the tears of laughter. So secure seats at once and drive dull care away and spend an evening with Gilmore and Leonard and the little Yellow Kid in "Hogan's Alley...
...After pointing out "the evils of overtraining and excessive exertion" and the defects in the management of sports and their remedies, the President says: "It must be perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high qualities are exercised for no adequate end." With the last sentence perhaps many of us will disagree; and no doubt...
...absences from chapel is carelessness and unwillingness to sacrifice a few minutes. Many men have never taken the trouble to go inside the Chapel. It is not because they are atheists and devoid of all religious sentiment, but because they have a feeling that the Chapel must be a dull sort of a place...
...Graduate" wish to strike here his dominant note of reform, and in the seductive "nominating speeches" to offer Ninety-seven a panacea for all the ills besetting Class Day elections? If this has been his motive he has succeeded but poorly, and we fear he must have been a dull scholar in his undergraduate days, or else he neglected the good English courses shamefully. [See Rhetoric: "Clearness...