Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...absurd to think that no one could have ordered a shell of Waters, to be built after an English model, except Robert J. Cook. As for Blakie's shell, it did not split from stem to stern, but two years after it was built it was loaned to the Freshmen, who kicked a hole in the bottom of it. As for Keart, "the Yale factotum," about whom we heard so much before the race, he built a shell for the Yale crew, and it was so worthless that they never could use it, and it is now falling to pieces...
...influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will be injured by reading in the class what he has just read outside in preparing the lesson. The instructor's motive, then, in being so exceedingly particular is, probably, to avoid all laughter and disorder. To this I can only say, after...
Would we, then, have the entire German system? We answer, No. We would not have the German system, nor the English, nor the so-called American. We would not have the German lack of moral control, nor the English "cram" and conservatism and absurd mediaeval customs, nor the American routine. But we would have the German liberality, the English manners, and the American customs. We would have a system which, while it avoided the evils, should combine the advantages...
...namesake at Yale. The articles are all short, and very amusing. We are very sorry, however, to find the young ladies of Abbott Academy admiring the "Story of Avis," for, although Gail Hamilton's severe attack prejudiced us in its favor, we consider it one of the most absurd of recent novels, which is saying a good deal...
...wish to go to England under no false pretences. We do not claim to be the champion four of American colleges. No such thing exists, and the attempts of our contemporaries to manufacture the title are as absurd as their protest against our supposed assumption of it." - Acta Columbiana...