Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College Courses" affords racy reading. We can imagine the reader sitting with the elective pamphlet in one hand saying, "Who is it that gives Abyzsinian 29 which is conducted in an insipid way, although the lecturer has great ability?" We wish that we could hope that instructors might profit by the exceeding multitude of conflicting counsels: "When he cried, 'Steer to starbord, but keep her head to larbord,' What on earth was the helmsman...
...best. "Vanitas," by a graduate of another college, is but an inadequate account in would-be sarcastic vein of some phases of Harvard literary activity. "Coffee Pot" is chiefly a matter of hackneyed dialect, and "A Cruising Idyll," though interesting, is slight. "Romance for One" could hardly be more insipid...
...Lampoon contains a good deal that is timely and humorous. Though the drawings are not striking, those by W.N. Taylor '03 and the center page by D.C. Bartholomew '06, are exceedingly effective through their clever simplicity. Most of the other drawings are not without merit, the only really insipid effort being carefully located on the cover...
...Miller '01. He is seen again in the third act as Professor Hasafad, the enthusiastic discoverer of Leif Ericsson. C. C. Brayton '01 makes a laughable figure in this act as a Chicago wheat king of the "nouveau riche" type. P. L. Fish '01, as the insipid, affected Duke of Dedbroke, and J. M. Ross '01, as the threadbare actor, are worthy of commendation. The leading girls' parts are taken by J. S. Chipman '01 and W. H. Taylor '01. The former makes a petite and graceful heroine. Taylor plays Nodo Woodmarry, the gay, sprightly chorus girl...