Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sometimes an object not fully avowed. This element in athletics the Advertiser entirely leaves out of account. "But the growth of the professional spirit has gone," it says, "so far that the idea of playing any game except for the purpose of beating, seems to an undergraduate simply absurd." This statement is both true and not true. It is true that the undergraduate enters into a game generally with the thought prominent in his mind of beating. It is not true that in his whole system of athletics-in his preparation for this game or in his attendance...
...great mental gifts either do not need an education, or would get an education without any opportunities being provided for this purpose in a school or college system- a proposition which, however true in exceptional cases, taken as a general statement no argument is required to prove absurd. Men of muscle do need exercise. The men who suffer most from the confinement of student-life are the men of vigorous bodies. Many of them, without the capacity of self-control, and without the health which they gain by exercise under the present system of athletics, would never be able...
...large majority of the faculty in accepting the resolutions. The faculty, I hear from a private source, almost unanimously rejected the preambles. The preambles then were not our faculty's reasons for their action. These preambles, however, were written by their sole representative at the New York convention. Absurd and illogical as the preambles taken together with the resolutions confusedly are, by the public they are thought to be fully endorsed by the Harvard faculty. As usual, the faculty, I suppose, will keep a dignified (?) silence. This silence on the part of the faculty, is generally considered by those...
...throwing and catching the ball and good field work may be admirably practised among amateurs without any outside aid, as last years college base-ball record shows, but batting and making safe hits is quite another thing and it is here that professional aid always tells. It is absurd to believe that the practice given to batsmen by an amateur pitcher can accomplish the same results as that given by a professional, since the pitching is not so swift nor so sure, two requisites seldom found in an amateur pitcher. The delivery of the ball may be supplemented with...
...average about ten. It is true that the utmost freedom is allowed, the young men can come and go as they please, they are subject to no espionage. But an examination which requires from 8 A. M. to 11 P. M. for completion with diligent labor, is clearly absurd. The general agreement of professors and students leaves no room for question of the truth of these statements...