Word: trivializing
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...which every Harvard man would do well to cultivate, if he wish to distinguish himself and perhaps become even an editor of a College paper. But to make good verses - that is, good Harvard verses - requires considerable skill and tact; not genius, nothing so vulgar and trivial as genius...
...life is short. But it 's long enough to have some events crowded into it that don't impress even the casual observer as trivial. Such an event has just made its mark on the Fresh - no, Sophomore page of my life. I have taken the Second-Year Honor Examinations; and the results are - well, I say to the public generally very gratifying, but to myself I acknowledge that some surprise is mixed with my gratification. Now, the thing that I have been puzzling my brains over is, why I should be surprised. In a University where the curve...
...shall be most happy to substantiate the charge which I have made against this janitor, if the Bursar considers such a trivial and unimportant matter worthy of his attention...
...strong reasons why some members, although not a majority of the Board, should not be apportioned among different States, according to the number of graduates in each of those States. The advantages that might accrue from such an apportionment are many, while the disadvantages are few and trivial. For, if it is true that the benefices to the University have come for the most part from localities subject to the personal influence of members of the Board, it is reasonable to conclude that, if this influence encircled a larger area, the area of patronage might be enlarged, without detriment...
...almost ludicrously small. Some may think that they should be permitted to read even these few, and we doubt not that upon presenting good reasons to the Librarian they will be permitted to do so; but let us hear no more complaint about a restriction really of such trivial importance...