Word: triteness
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Many people blame the faculty and trustees for the intellectual lethargy in our colleges. But how about the students themselves? Why is that the majority of college papers, which are entirely in the students' own hands, have pages filled with accounts of athletics, poor comic columns, and trite editorials that try so hard to be clever? Why is there so little mention of education, and intellectual discussions, why no word on things that go on outside the college walls...
...married another man. Flavia Desmond, the heroine, has field from the society of London and comes to Rhodesia disguised as a man. She falls in love with Druro and throughout the book tries to save him from self destruction. The story offers nothing new: In fact it is rather trite. Moreover the improbability of a young and beautiful girl, living as a man, and with men over an extended period of time and still keeping her disguise, rather spoils what might otherwise have been a very powerful novel. The description of Rhodesian life and people is so well done however...
...question of the proper ventilation of recitation rooms has by this time passed from the status of a trite subject to that of a classic one. Nevertheless, we shall not repeat the remark that a college which provides instruction in chemistry, physiology, and hygiene, and which also compels its students to breathe poison for several hours a day, may perhaps, with some show of reason, he accused of inconsistency. . . .We shall not suggest that some means of ventilation other than by the windows might be provided: nor shall we hint that the students and instructors who regulate the temperature...
...anyone who saw the game words will seem futile and congratulations trite; to those unfortunates who missed one of the opportunities of their lives further comment may seem additionally cruel. Yet to refrain from congratulations to Captain Buell, Coach Fisher and the team after Saturday is impossible, and the CRIMSON adds one more note to the roar of rejoicing that still continues nearly forty-eight hours after the final whistle...
Last but not least (to be trite), came Glazmov's "Steuka Razine". It is a fine work, equally enjoyable with or without the program. It shows clearly to a Boston audience the difference between artistic treatment of a folk-song and melodramatic claptrap, in its version of the droning Volgar bargemen's song...