Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, however, the main point is that all these arguments about details are trivial and irrelevant, unworthy in idealistic people like ourselves. The Harvard Glee Club is doing an invaluable and sorely needed service to our higher esthetic life. It behooves us to be duly grateful, and to support so important an influence up to the limit of our resources...
...musical worth", strikes my ears strangely. A close acquaintance of many years with Horatio Parker, my friend and associate, the composer of the song selected, leads me to doubt if any "inferior" music ever came from his pen. Music of varying degrees of varying degress of delicacy, yes: but "trivial" music never...
...perhaps inevitable in an age of prompt publicity that many a trivial incident should reach the general world in a halo or with horns. At any rate eager reporters--sometimes play fairy godmother to publicity agents. One of these, Harry Reichenbach, has just begun a series of articles of which the first appears in the current "Liberty", a bit gloating in manner, but none the less picturesque...
...them I give are formed merely from what I've read in or about them, or from an undigested consensus of the remarks of other people. As my list is made up almost wholly from memory, it doubtless omits many books of great merit; includes several that are trivial because of some personal bias; and possibly omits several of importance for the same reason. With this apology ended, I shall proceed to wander through a list which is by no means in order of merit, or in much of any other order...
...warrant its further extension to the Junior and Sophomore classes. Its application to Freshmen will probably never be either practicable or desirable, as it would add materially to the danger of the already critical period of transition between secondary school and college. The present change in itself is trivial, but it brings nearer the day when Harvard undergraduates will rightfully be regarded as conscientious students, interested in their own scholastic welfare and hence competent to regulate their own attendance at college classes...