Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reason why Harvard should change her colors. There may be numerous colleges and schools who have baseball nines or crews that wear magenta trimmings, and have worn them for twenty years; but if, at some future date, they should decide to contend with Harvard, it would be absurd for them to claim a prior right to the magenta. The color of a college is determined when first worn in a race with other colleges. The magenta is now identified with Harvard; it has been worn for over ten years in races with fifteen different colleges...
...first elective examination paper printed in last year's Catalogue. It is one in Greek, in which we find an explanation of iv' nv n duvaues asked for. Possibly some man had translated that "in order that the force was," and then wondered why Demosthenes wrote such an absurd sentence; and possibly he discovered his mistake, and was saved from repeating it by the explanation and reference to the Greek moods which were given. How many would of their own free will have learned anything about the time and circumstances of the First Philippic or about the geography of Greece...
...same thing to express, forces us to peer through his artful darkness and lose our time in making conjectures as to where the staircase leads; in fact, if we can believe his great admirer, M. Charles Blanc, he draws upon our imagination for a lion. This seems too absurd to be true, but, nevertheless, in his criticism of this picture, M. Blanc speaks of "the lion which you think...
...have only to suggest, in addition to the proposed changes, that the English custom be completely followed, and the absurd rule abolished which prohibits bottled ale or porter at table. These tonics are positively needful to many of the students; and there can be little doubt but what it is better to drink these openly, and at the proper season, than surreptitiously in one's own room...
...Amherst, at the beginning of the present college year, Dr. Hitchcock, the supervisor of the physical education of the students, caused to be circulated in the Freshman class a paper by which all who signed were bound to neither smoke nor drink. Such a proceeding here would seem absurd. Few would sign; those who did would be influenced far more by their previous prejudices or a desire to oblige, than by a belief in its necessity or advantage. But it would not alone be absurd; it would be pernicious as well. Indeed, it is an objection that holds as well...