Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their best. They make a much weaker attempt at practice than an average school second eleven. They go through the signals in a listless, happy-go-lucky fashion, and many of them seem to regard a game with one of Harvard's greatest athletic rivals as the most trivial thing in the world. Even with small boys this would seem inexcusable. An enthusiastic second eleven may turn an inferior first eleven into a winning team. Ninety-nine did this last year; it is now '00's privilege as representatives of Harvard to try to equal this record. At all events...
...people should be prevented.- (a) The capriciousness of the public will is one of the greates dangers to the Republic.- (B) The disadvantages of electing both bodies on the same basis are seen in state legislatures.- (1) There is no conservative check in state legislation.- (a) Too much trivial legislation, (Bryce, I, 520).- (2) Both houses of the state legislatures are excessively afraid of the people, (Bryce...
...fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak in the great critic comes to the surface with unpleasant frequency. But the collection as a whole shows Arnold in an engaging light as son, brother, husband and father; the glimpses...
...good sense of every Harvard man. We have no sympathy with those who look upon Bloody Monday as a sacred institution and the Faculty in their opposition to it as a body of ruthless iconoclasts. Such a view, for one thing, makes much of what is really a very trivial matter. The fact is that the observances in the Yard of the first Monday of the year are among the last relics of the days when the college man had more of the nature of an academy boy. An institution may be hoary with time and yet not be time...
...admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about it. He, Gorgona, Titian, and Tintoretto, are the illumination of Venetian...