Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...virtue at all in the Bible." No, and we did not know that, in the sense in which it is not advocated in the Bible, political economy endorsed it either. For either the correspondent must translate his "saving" by "miserliness" or else convict himself of ignorance. But his most absurd remark of all is: "Christ himself was not prudent." Let me recommend to the writer Mr. Mill's masterly answer to the charge of "Expediency" brought against his "Utilitarianism." Is far-sightedness any the less sight than near-sightedness? If you mean by "prudence" near-sightedness, then...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The views expressed by your correspondent, '87, in regard to a Class Day uniform, seem very sensible, in calling attention to that absurd custom of wearing dress suits throughout...
...arguments for the new classification system: First, the class limits are so large that an instuctior can in general easily determine in which class any man belongs. The old way of expecting an instructor to decide within one per cent. of the value of a man's work was absurd. Second, the new system will do away with the pernicious practice of working "for marks...
...proposed plan lies the germ of the destruction of Harvard's social ties, a destruction which will render the student relations more democratic, more common and less exclusive. If such destruction is the germ of the plan under agitation, the plan cannot but fail. For it is absurd in a high degree to imagine that men will substitute for ties which are formed through interests absolutely fundamental in life, one great bond which overlooks distinctions of personality, and must therefore fall far short of attracting individual men with distinct and very often antagonistic tastes. Thus then, there will exist...
...talk at present about training the Yale crew of 1887 in these zero days when skating and tobogganing are about the only sports that hold sway, seems rather absurd. Heretofore the candidates for the crew have practised during the latter part of the winter on hydraulic machines in which they went through the motions very well and derived many valuable points. But it was found "too stagey" and not in all respects like real water, and to obviate this difficulty there hasbeen constructed a tank which is to be filled with real Lake Saltonstall or rather Lake Whitney water...