Word: dulle
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Prosaic, cold, dull thing of lead...
...only be rendered stronger and healthier by his exercise, but he will be trained instinctively in qualities of promptitude of decision, impartiality of judgment, and readiness of action that will not only help him as a student, but be invaluable to him in after life. Students who are mentally dull do not gravitate to the athletic sports, or, if they do, are rejected there. Some time ago there was a young man, a member of the boat club, who could not seemingly keep up in his studies. The captain of the club said to him : 'You have got to keep...
...SUSPICIOUS TINT.They told the preacher his words were dull...
...book throughout is pervaded with the genuine college spirit of our day in treating of all social subjects - a mild Horatian cynicism of a modern tinge. And yet the chief praise we can give to the volume is to say that it is thoroughly readable; it is not dull as so many of the attempts of college writers at social satire are apt to be. The following is headed "A Practical Question...
...when the familiar character of the composition and the position of the author are viewed. The writer informs us in the modest preface that the poems contained in the volume were written, with the exception of two of the shorter ones, before coming to college, and this statement must dull, it would seem, the pen of the most ill-natured critic...