Word: triteness
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...real cause of the small attendance at the meetings must have been the "lectures" with which each meeting was opened, and which, judging from their titles, can hardly have been anything but trite and dull. Had they been done away with, there is little reason to doubt that the society would have lasted much longer than...
...method. Competent amateurs, it will now be observed, attribute the success of '87 on Friday to the mistake made by '85 in attempting to pull a stroke of forty-four to the minute during the first mile of the race. It is as true a saying as it is trite, that it is wise to let well enough alone."- Advertiser...
...upon the stage. His tones were the same which have been so often heard behind the footlights: his delivery was marked by the same careful enunciation and emphasis which lends it its peculiar charm. In the subject matter of his lecture there was much that was of necessity somewhat trite, but the sombre current of the subject was lightened by many gleams of anecdote and wit. At many passages in which the lecturer rose to the height of true eloquence, the audience showed its appreciation by applause, while the frequent pleasantries brought in to illustrate some maxim of the actor...
...game has at last been arranged, and nothing remains now but for our freshmen to go down to New Haven and do their best to win. To do this the class must support their nine by sending down as large a delegation as possible. Yale enthusiasm is almost too trite a subject to write upon. Whenever the Yale freshmen come to Boston or Cambridge, they are invariably accompanied by a large and enthusiastic crowd of supporters, who contribute in a large degree to the success which has so often attended them. An opportunity has now come for our freshmen...
...recent trouble between the Princetonian and the faculty of Princeton college brings to mind a question in which all of us must be more or less interested-whether a college paper ought to have complete freedom to express its opinions. Every one has heard from his infancy the trite old maxim that the "freedom of the press is a necessary factor in a free country," until we have come to regard the press as the very impersonation of liberty. It is taken as a self-evident fact. But when as students we turn to the college papers, and ask ourselves...