Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre in actual attainment for the Phi Beta Kappa. They are men of ideas, and (which is quite as important) leisure As graduates, X may be President of the United States and Y the head of a railroad-for such things have been: as undergraduates...
Many a care-free undergraduate whose studies are his least concern assumes that a miraculous transformation will take place in his habits after he has "settled down to work." He looks on college as a pleasant interlude between the seclusion of his schooldays and the prosaic realities of a business world. He hears too frequently that his undergraduate years are to be the gayest and freest of his life, and he does not hesitate to devote them to the pursuit of pleasure. This undergraduate is, fortunately, one of a rather small type, and his ideas of fun are frequently strangely...