Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...marriage and divorce, their history, relation, and significance. Divorce is the negative side of the question; it is the symbol of inconstant family life. It has increased within the last thirty years almost three times as fast as the population, and it has come to be granted for trivial and even nonsensical reasons. The looseness that pervades the whole system has brought with it a moral shock and a consequent great social evil...
...state of our athletic and social organization but does not speak with any seriousness on the subject. As a matter of fact it is a question likely to influence the undergraduates only, and the faculty and outsiders will generally not consider a matter which seems to them entirely trivial. Nevertheless so intensely interested are the students in the athletic success of the University as well as in some of the clubs that they would be very likely to be unanimous in desiring that any action likely to change the habits of the students to a serious degree be taken with...
...make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth. If one dwells upon the capriciousness of fortune and of the human Will, one finds that paradox of life, which was at the centre of Schopenhauer's pessimistic argument...
...concert in Sanders Theatre last evening was composed almost entirely of popular selections. The first was Haydn's Symphony in D, which was one of the greatest of the symphonies of the last century, but which sounds simple and almost trivial in these days. The most enjoyable part of it was the minuet. After the Symphony, Miss Gertrude Franklin sang an aria by Massenet, which was much enjoyed by the audience. Miss Franklin's voice is not particularly pleasant in quality, yet she uses it with so much expression and intelligence that her singing is always interesting. She was heard...
...sermon at the vesper service yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel was delivered by Rev. T. C. Williams upon verses from the fourth: chapter of the book of Proverbs. The reason why resolutions for the new year are so easily broken is because they are so trivial; since it is far harder to do a small, comparatively unimportant thing than a great one. A man should try to change himself morally and begin a thoroughly new and good life. A single bough may be hard to cut off; the axe should be laid at the root of the tree. Each...