Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...semblance of great erudition. It often happens that one who from much reading is acquainted with the minutiae as well as the outlines of history gets no higher mark (or perhaps not so high) than another who has confined himself to a syllabus. But granted that marks are too trivial a matter for a grave argument like this, there is another aspect of the case which is all important. When examinations are based wholly upon a syllabus, the students are encouraged to rest content with superficial study; at other times there is a tendency, at any rate, to force those...
...desire, dear Magenta, to avoid a controversy in so trivial a matter, and I have only attempted a vindication of an opinion I had expressed, but the soundness of which has been questioned...
After many trivial and ludicrous motions the Convention adjourned, to meet at the same place the last Wednesday in March...
Proved true to her trivial sex, me judice...