Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that the defect of instruction, here called to attention, is trivial, be it admitted freely. But be it also said that the remedy is easy. It involves simply the revision of a reading list and of a lecture schedule in each of two English courses in order that a little more American literature may filter through the educational process...
...plan either trivial, or inadequate. By removing what must always remain little more than the culminating expression of fact-knowledge, the ambitious scholar is thus able to spend his senior year in work sufficiently individual to justify his continuance in the college. Such a means of proving his acquaintance with scholarship is too near the under class of preparatory method. That it is needed as a justification for further work in a less frigid manner is obvious--as obvious as the fact that the senior candidate for distinction has passed beyond the desire for such expression of accomplishment. Freed from...
...suggestion of offering a practical panacea for present ills. That it has novelty, one can easily agree. But that the novelty dwindles to insignificance before the sanity and sufficiency of its conception, one must surely admit. In this section of the report, the Committee has certainly and in no trivial manner justified its existence...
...there was great political trepidation both in the Senate and out, for it was realized that any action, no matter how trivial, by the League would arouse the irreconcilables to new efforts, give them something new to talk about, and possibly imperil the election of pro-Court Senators next fall...
...kind--and they have to attend their own nine o'clock. Yet despite all these hardships they repeatedly assert that they like their calling, find it fascinating. "Idiots", insists the busy world. But the busy world knows only a small part of this idiocy, appreciates it in a most trivial...