Word: trivializes
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...that threadbare theme appears for once in a new and surprising form. The principal character a woman too dull to apprehend the great meanings of the conflict, too apathetic to be moved by the peril of thirty thousand men, is by an insult which would seem comparatively trivial to others, but which wounds her only pride, suddenly turned into a fury of righteousness, and, without knowing it, becomes a national heroine. This may be melodrama in its superficial appearance, but at bottom it is something far better. I am greatly mistaken if "The Clod" is not the best...
There is one thing, however, in which the students themselves must help. Any member of the University who has reason to suppose that any article he misses has been stolen, should at once report the missing article and the circumstances of its loss to the Yard police. However trivial the loss may seem, it is from such clues that detection of the culprit and return of the stolen property have resulted in several instances. Not for his own sake alone, but for the sake of his fellow-students, the loser should co-operate with the Yard detectives in this...
...adopt the syncopated rhythm of ragtime; he has been using it freely since Bach, but he has been using it with variety and restraint and he will doubtless continue to do so, for the few cases where it has been handled otherwise have proved for the most part, trivial or unconvincing...
...have been calmly waiting since the last week in October for the committee to attend to when it found the time. Of course, I realize that it is too much to expect the committee to devote any time during the stirring days of the football season to such a trivial matter as the filling of orders for buttons, but it does seem as if in the six weeks since then the members might have sacrificed a little time from their scholarly pursuits to performing the duties supposed to be connected with their scholarly pursuits to performing the duties supposed...
...Harvard, the oldest, the most cultured the most advanced of American universities should be without a recognized literary representative. As it is now, both papers claim to be "the" Harvard literary; as a result neither is truly representative. This matter of a literary organ may at first blush appear trivial, yet after a moment of thought it will be perceived that it is really of great importance. The literary organ of the College should express the noblest and finest and best that has been thought or felt in our community. Its service should be to stimulate and clarify both thought...