Word: triteness
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...Harvard's capacity to succeed, if she only takes the trouble, has been afforded. At the opening of the term we mentioned the well-worn saying, "Oh! they don't know how to play foot-ball at Harvard!" and joined our entreaties to those of the college that this trite remark might become as pathetic in its application as that satire, "Yale men say." Our hopes have been fulfilled, and Harvard has taken its place among the first of the contestants in the foot-ball arena...
...prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot-ball at Harvard...
...condemn the contemptible practice of taking reserved books from the library may seem to our readers a trite theme, but another case has just been brought to our notice which demands a few words. This time it is a text-book in Natural History 2 which is missing. It is impossible for members of that course to get any adequate idea of the subject, which is being passed over with great rapidity, without constant references to the text-book on zoology by Claus. We have been informed that careful search on the shelves and on the desks of the reading...
...guidance ought to be assured the student. "We grant great freedom in the choice of study. But, we do not mean to have any senior . . . . say to us that since he entered college no one ever told him that there is a difference between Right and Wrong." This is trite enough, of course. No one denies for a moment that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured. But is the only way of affording this moral guidance by means of a compulsory service? We cannot believe it. On the contrary, we believe a compulsory service...
...decision in regard to that matter. It may be another case of the blind leading the blind, if we venture to make any suggestions. Nevertheless, it may be well to call to mind a few well-known facts. The pursuit should be adapted to the capacity of the man. Trite as this statement may appear, perhaps there is none that is usually less regarded in the choice of a profession. All about us we see men striving to become what nature never meant they should be. Accountants, who might succeed if they stuck to that for which they are fitted...