Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little attention. Coming as it did, however, soon after the hazing affairs at Princeton, and the rough and tumble rush at Yale, it cannot fail to draw down upon the college a great mass of unkind criticism. The city press is only too glad to magnify the most trivial college scrapes until they assume the dignified proportions of a riot, as many of our sister colleges can testify, and as the Boston press reports of Thursday's rush may be cited to prove. Another point which the students engaged in the melee should have remembered is, that the faculty...
...referring to your first article, I called it "inaccurate;" while, by your own admission, that adjective was not wholly inappropriate, I think, on the whole, I might better have used the word "misleading." When I used the word, I was thinking, not of the trivial blunder as to the cost of the "blazers," but to the rather broad and harsh clause in which it is said that the provision of such "luxuries" as "blazers," etc., "indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely." It may be true that such...
...trustees of Dartmouth College are engaged in a litigation with the town of Hanover over the seemingly trivial question of a bandstand on the green near the college grounds...
...ferocious communication to the college papers, quite ignoring the fact that it is the duty of the members to present all complaints to the directors, who, by virtue of their office, are the ones to whom all complaints should be given. There is nothing gained by giving such trivial complaints any undue publicity. A complaint box is placed in the hall in order that members may put in it any complaints they may have to make, and they can rest assured that any sensible complaint will receive a careful investigation. Members should remember that "trivial or unreasonable complaints, however...
...instructor should not be able to tell whether or not the "print is too fine" or "the German too simple" for the men in his course before selecting the book. To be compelled to buy a book, merely to throw it aside in a week or more for some trivial reason, is very disagreeable...