Word: trivializations
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...many incidents that are absurd and often amusing. There seems to be no true sense of value--perhaps Miss Kelley is trying to show that city-life is apt to throw things out of proportion--but at times one is annoyed by the emphasis that is put upon trivial and unimportant matters. Often one is inclined to think that a better title might have been "Mary's Philosophy of Little Things...
...remark on your editorial in today's Crimson concerning Earmark vacations. Altho the opinion of an unclassified student may be quite negligible; nevertheless I do not hesitate to give it in this instance. I heartily concur with you in he belief that the matter of veracious is not as trivial a factor of Harvard antagonism as some individuals may think. And a great number of students with whom I have spoken have expressed a similar feeling about...
Although length of vacations may seem too trivial a consideration to influence any serious minded person in the choice of his college, still it is true that the small and apparently needless annoyances are often the most irritating. To those who are contemplating the choice of a college, Harvard's present ill-planned vacations seem characteristic of her supposed attitude of unwillingness to sacrifice tradition for reason; to those who are here, it is merely a penalty which we are forced to pay in return for our superior educational opportunities...
...inconceivable that a man who has been found guilty, as the Congressman says, "of the most fiendish cruelties" should be allowed to go free, when soldiers who committed what in comparison to the offenses of "Hard-Boiled Smith" were "trivial infractions of the military code" are still serving, time at Leavenworth. According to newspaper reports, Smith has broken parole. If this is true, surely this transgressor against the spirit of fair play should be again apprehended and placed where the perpetrator of such deeds as he committed belongs...
...fact. Mr. Sabatini, in his latest volume of "The Historical Nights' Entertainment" has recognized one phase of this axiom. In his preface he says, "I set out again with the same ambitious aim of adhering scrupulously in every instance to actual recorded facts," and he notes a few trivial deviations from the facts of the incidents he depicts. But while he has been meticulous in his plots, he has deviated so far from the truth in his manner of presentation that the book fails utterly...