Word: trivialness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...name of Atwood among the artists gave assurance of a good paper. Here more improvement is noticed, yet the old peculiar style so well known still remains. His work on this paper has been confined almost entirely to small outline figure drawings. But no matter how small or trivial the same expressiveness remains as of old. Every Irishman is about to break out into his native brogue and Matthew Arnold, true to life, stands hesitatingly scanning his lecture notes. Well may the Lampoon be proud of her great son; but Mr. Atwood can better be called the father of Lampy...
...highest classical honors at the University of Cambridge alone; in which only one has a partial glimmering of success for lumdreds and hundreds who inevitable fail; and in which the few exceptional successes are so flagrantly useless that they can only be regarded at the best as a somewhat trivial and fantastic accomplishment an accomplishment so singularly barren of all results that it has scarcely produced a dozen original poems on which the world sets the most trifling value; while we waste years in thus perniciously fostering idle verbal imitations, and in neglecting the rich fruit of ancient learning...
...attention of the college and of its friends to the subject of a swimming-bath. We will not dilate on its advantages. They speak for themselves. However, while the college is so occupied with the subject of morning prayers, we do not expect them to trouble themselves about such trivial matters as fire escapes, swimming-baths, lights in the entries at night, and other subjects which have to do merely with our temporal safety...
...year require very few books of reference; but it is also due to the fact that the fear of showing their freshness, which influences many of the actions of the freshman-keeps men from going into the library and finding out how to take books out. This seems a trivial reason to prevent men from getting books which they really want to read, and should not for a moment keep them from getting at once into the way of using the library. To prevent any little inconveniences which might arise at the first attempt, we shall show how easily this...
...failures, that the present steward has failed, either through carelessness or wilful disregard, to pay proper attention to the expressed wishes of the board of directors in the matter of the regulation of the price of board and the general management of the hall. This is certainly not a trivial ground on which to base the demand for his removal. It is absolutely essential to the successful management of the hall by the students that the steward possess their entire confidence. Moreover, that the present condition of the hall seems more satisfactory than it was under the steward who preceded...