Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Certainly cross-country running is a sufficiently important branch of track to be made a "legitimate" field in which to win one's letter. It is not a trivial sport. With the possible exception of rowing, there is no exercise which makes such a demand upon the grit and stamina of the athlete, and which leaves him in such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins...
...lukewarm editorial, a half-baked leading article, three uneven experiments in verse, and four ingenious, trivial stories--the answer, we trust is not too obviously: Advocate. And yet some such formula as this, it seems, would frequently apply. The current issue, at any rate, is not above mediocrity. Not that the contributors always lack ideas; in two cases at least subjects of importance are broached, on which undergraduate opinion just now is desirable. The real trouble seems to be that the work is not carefully thought to or logically arranged, and that the product of an idle moment as allowed...
...boasted. When we consider the success that has already attended the efforts of the club's president, the chances of producing something of real artistic merit seem almost limitless. Of late years the College has been overrun with musical comedies, some good, some bad; but all far too trivial, and none expressive of Harvard's real dramatic ability...
...what many have blunderingly tried to express. As we are thrilled by the nearness of those we love, one of the holiest of human emotions, just so are we thrilled by nearness to nature, by the first touch of spring, by contact with enthusiasm, and by witnessing even so trivial a thing as some great game. The attraction is born in us and we cling to it at all costs. For intercollegiate games it is but one of the arguments, but one which has been forcefully...
...doctrine of "might makes right," his broad criticism of a narrow policy, and his independence of prejudice and envy have made him one of the most eminent historical thinkers the world has ever produced. Thucydides's greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," is remarkably free from the multitude of trivial details and stories usually inserted by his contemporaries, presenting, on the contrary, the serious attempt of an historical thinker to present the trends and currents marked by the events of the time...