Word: trivializes
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...presented to the faculty, and the decision rests with them alone; plenty of time has been given for mature deliberation and that decision has not been reached. The petition was signed by men whose opinions should have weight with the faculty. The question at issue is not a trivial one: it is a very serious one and affects our baseball prospects in a very serious manner. Under these circumstances, we cannot help thinking that the petition should have been acted upon by this time. As it is, there will probably occur a succession of delays until it is too late...
...base-ball season has opened with a tragedy at the U. of Chattanooga, where a trivial dispute resulted in the killing of one of the players by the umpire...
...tells the whole significant truth about the daily life of its community, the honest and essential truth. But its truth is confusedly the truth of to-day. Its outlook is not eternity, but twenty-four hours; and it must needs be interested in many things that will hereafter appear trivial and empty. But the test is whether the news reporter has told what for the moment is worth knowing, as an evidence of the actually significant human passion of the day, What I especially lament, then, in the journalism of the day is the too frequent absence of this ideal...
...Escott and Eldon, of Margaret and. Harold, from their environment, yet one at the same time realizes, even more distinctly, that the passions and natures of these people are true to humanity. What is better still, they are true to a phase of humanity which is neither degraded nor trivial, but which, though of necessity marked with error, is nevertheless essentially noble and high. We know of no instance in fiction where a love between man and woman, which could not exist and be given expression to within the bounds of honor, has been depicted with the quiet strength...
...unions as corporations and thus practically gave the teachers the upper hand. These corporations became faculties in the thirteenth century in somewhat the following way: Comparatively little specialized teaching existed at Paris towards the end of the twelfth century, and most of the Masters in Arts only taught the "trivial arts," as Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectics, While the Quadruvian was reserved for higher art students. Thus the teachers of arts would have their fees reduced by the graduates of of the Chancellor. However, with the necessity of more specialized teaching the board which drew the professors...