Word: triteness
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...college studies, as in every thing else, must be acknowledged to be of the greatest value. The fact is frequently remarked that students who have given the most brilliant promises of future success in preparatory schools frequently take but a mediocre rank in college. While the saying is trite that high rank in the freshman year often means but a subordinate position at graduation, on the other hand it is almost a college tradition that the man who ranks high in the later years of his course usually stands in the lower or middle section of his class...
...trite remark...
...Trite as the subject may be, we would again call the attention of the authorities to the necessity of having more plank walks in the yard. The expense of providing these would be more than balanced by the pleasure of being able to cross the yard dry shod...
...have a book of Harvard songs, as the Advocate suggests, and let the Harvard poets as well as the Harvard musicians be allowed to publish their work in it. 2. Pay the goodies better wages and get better work. 3. Let us have better ventilation (excellent but "trite"). 4. Do not let interest in evening readings die out. (Further suggestion: Make evening readings more interesting.) 5. We pray for a public room for practising sparring. (All the fighting editors of the college are sadly out of training...
...have recently seen references in our exchanges to that much talked of Harvard indifference. The expression is so frequently used that it has become trite and almost lost the little signification which it originally possessed. It is generally regarded as referring to the want of class feeling among the students, and more especially to the personal independence which always characterizes a man capable of finding his own occupation and amusement. The disappearing of the childish ill-feeling toward men of a higher class, is one of the most potent indications of a university, and it seems strange that its absence...