Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fourthly: Our management is accused of influencing the committee to decide against New York, thinking they might force Yale to come to Cambridge. This is as absurd as it is unfair and ungenerous. The foot-ball men could not influence the Athletic Committee. The votes of the overseers and of the faculty have time and again been against allowing Harvard to play in New York, and there was nothing else for the committee to decide. In fact they saved time by deciding at once...
...Since she is never to be allowed to play in New York, she must always break the constitution when she is second and Yale first. Consequently Yale will always have the choice of ground, which means that Harvard must always play at New Haven-and that is manifestly absurd...
...walls, that the attitude of the faculty is one of connivance rather than of active warfare against vice. So far, however, from accepting what this person says of Harvard, detecting immediately the animus of the article, we find so much of exaggeration that the writer's statements become absurd. The writer speaks first of one man in twenty as belonging to the "set" he is describing. Placing the total number of undergrates at 1200, an over-estimate, the size of the set according to the writer's calculation would be 60 men; but a few pages later, this number grows...
...behavior. By such actions, one might be led to believe that class games were not intended merely as a means of furnishing exercise and recreation to the players and pleasure to the spectators, but that consequences more momentous than inter-collegiate contests depended upon their results. Besides, it is absurd to think that no undergraduate can be honor-able enough to umpire a game squarely. By all means, let us have the class games run smoothly, instead of being disfigured by such unreasonable and foolish kicking as occurred yesterday...
...Hall, a modification of the extra-order list and of the regular bills of fare, and a better organization of the Board of Directors. We hope that the number of members will be reduced to its proper limit next October, as suggested in the report. It is simply absurd to expect satisfaction while the Hall is crowded far beyond its capacity. To secure a definite policy in the management of the Hall, some such reorganization as would be effected by the appointment of an executive committee seems absolutely necessary. The steward must be kept aware of his responsibility...