Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second and less apparent purpose of the university can be summed up in the trite phrase "to keep alive the light of learning." Those who are to turn out that indefinite product--the educated man--must have more for their background than four or even six years of classroom education, will provide. To codify and present knowledge in comprehensible form is their profession; they have dedicated themselves to the work of revealing to other men the treasures of the ages. But their duty does not end there; they must not stagnate in the mere conning over of long-known facts...
...speedily put all such self-centered thoughts away as unworthy, and turned to a serious consideration of the clipping itself. The incessant voicings of the theory that intelligent curiosity must be aroused in the student have made it almost trite and certainly wearisome. Howsoever, it is one of the Vagabond's cherished beliefs. More, it is a pillar supporting the remainder of his beliefs. For if one is not curious he may never penetrate that pleasure, enhancing circle of native vagabonds who wander in and out of classrooms supremely unaware of monitors...