Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hansen was not concerned with such trivia. Said he: "To ask me to perpetrate, on the battlefield at Yorktown, a composition in sculpture bastardized according to the collective idea of a government bureaucracy, is asking of me not only the services of my body but the devastating perdition of my soul...
...must persist in reporting such trivia, put it in Sport...
...collection includes records as well as trivia. The dining hall receipts for 1653 show a Harvard that took its case at table. In those golden days beer was the standard drink with meals, and no nonsense about voluntary privation. The large number of checks and circles against each student's name attest the hearty servings and frequent refills. Next to beer the favorite was potatoes. Well before the Irish immigration of 1715, Harvard men well knew the filling quality of the spud...
...another frame of existence. Neither are there characters on the stage who would exist only in an author's well-constructed, never-existent world. To do this, Mr. Inge would have to be an artist. Instead, he is a talented censor, able to sort and to rearrange the various trivia of living, conversation and action, combining a significant grouping of these, to create an excellent reproduction...
Dismantled down to its premise (and assuming that Houses now are overrun, a singularly doubtful point), this resembles regulating teeth-brushing and other personal trivia regulating teeth-brushing and other personal trivia which the University usually and properly ignores. Why is it the Administrative Board's business whether undergraduates can or do allocate their time properly, how well they battle temptation to slough off their studies, or whether roommates impede each other? Surely, as in any other matter of personal friction and decision, students are quite competent to make their own choices, seek then own relief...