Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Between 450 and 500 students board at the Commons and concerted yelling at trivial occurrences there has become so frequent of late that the faculty has decided to preserve order at all costs...
...their differences of opinion. How anyone could see there a Greek Archbishop, a Buddhist from China, and a Confucian from Japan sitting side by side with Episcopal and Roman Bishops, talking with them in a friendly and sympathetic way and even expressing the same sentiment-and then quarrel about trivial sectarian difference is hard to understand. Various minor congresses of different religions and sects were held in the first part of September. A man going to these meetings heard invariably the same words of love and the same call for charity and for universal or brotherhood. On September 11 they...
...which can be remedied and some of which seem inherent in the life itself and consequently bound to stay. Of those which can be remedied, the greater part begin at the opening of the term and, unless checked then and there, continue through the year. Most of them seem trivial, but they nevertheless take away a great deal of the pleasure and profit of the course. Our attention has been called to the fact that there are men in some of the philosophy and economics courses, where the matter in hand is apt to be abstruse, who repeatedly keep...
...means of discipline and culture. On the other hand, the arguments against giving credit for such work are based on the nature of the work, and on the condition in which it is performed. In regard to the first objection, it is said that the work is often trivial and calls for no exercise of judgment or application of principles. The writing, as an exercise for mental powers, is considered to be too hurried and careless, and the grade of work often deteriorates instead of improves...
...University Preachers, "The Voice of Tennyson" by Henry Van Dyke and the second chapter of the "Cosmopolis City Club" by Washington Gladden. "The Voice of Tennyson" is one of the best articles in the number. It is written "to record a memory" not to enter into any trivial gossip over Tennyson's life and works. Mr. Van Dyke describes the poet as he reads "Maud" and shows us how singularly beautiful and strange this reading was. He says, "It was not melodious or flexible, it was something better. It was musical, as the voice of the ocean...