Word: trivializes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...undergraduates, two prizes of $50 each are offered, one for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Green's "Short History of the English People, Chapter X, Section 2, from the words "A trivial riot" through the words "Free and Independent States", and the other for a translation into Latin of a passage in George Eliot's "Middlemarch", Chapter XIX, from the words, "Dorothea has learned to read the signs" through the words "generous trustfulness". These translations must be written by undergraduates of Harvard College in regular standing in 1906-07, and must be handed in not later...
...players of the university squad were required by the head coach to report every injury no matter how trivial it seemed to them, to the surgeon in charge. In expectation of numerous minor injuries and with a knowledge of the occurrence, in some previous years, of occasional epidemics of minor infections, special precautions were taken regarding asepsis this year. In the first place, an efficient sterilizing outfit was installed. A sufficient supply of clean towels was provided in order to prevent the possibility of transmission of skin infections, and pains were taken to see that the underclothing of the players...
...years are within the facts. The players were most of them extremely conscientious about answering the questions in the circular letter. On the other hand, the game appears to breed such a contempt for physical pain that many injuries which would appear severe to the ordinary individual were considered trivial by the players. For instance, one man, in answering the circular letter, answered the question, "How many injuries were received during 1905?" "Absolutely none whatever," although at that time he was being treated by one of us for a very large hematoma of the ear and had previously received...
Concussion was treated by the players in general as a trivial injury and rather regarded as a joke. The real seriousness of the injury is not certain. Our own experience with the after-effects of the cases if not sufficient for us to draw any definite conclusions, but from conversation with various neurologists, we have obtained very various opinions in regard to the possibility of serious after-effects...
...trivial or merely technical violation of these rules shall be judged on its merits by the Committee at the University where the man is a candidate, and, the Committee at the other university being notified, the matter shall still be open for reference to the Arbitration Committee in case the other university so desires...