Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...same tendency predominates in the verse of the Harvard Advocate; prose articles are of a less serious character. Both papers, however, too often permit the overcrowding of large ideas to produce a strained effect, or obscure the clear sense of the thought. Sometimes the intense degenerates into the absurd, and the bold epithet into mere affection; this is of course, the chief danger in all college papers that aim at marked originality, and yet in these two papers is found some of the best, and nearly all of the strongest poetry written by college students...
...service to any thing; but the Freshman Musical Clubs do a service. They give each year a considerable sum to their crew, which is always looked forward to and welcomed and always necessary, and they train and develop men for the 'varsity glee and banjo clubs. It is absurd to say that the freshmen will keep up their club now for their own amusement, that they will practise and work a whole year only "for fun." The spring concert is the one aim of the clubs all the year, no less for the sum to be given the crew than...
...have passed through the stage of secrecy in societies, and, with one exception, have given up that characteristic to them, can realize more fully that it is an absurd and nonsensical characteristic, fitted rather for the school boy than for the college man. It is observable, moreover, that where there are secret fraternities in colleges, the undergraduates are generally young and immature and lack broad and sober view of college life which bring among other things, an antipathy for secret societies. Until this maturity becomes more common among all our colleges secret societies, with the absurdities which they generally bring...
Wright of Yale cannot be expected to start in both the 440 yards dash and the half mile run. Supposing he chose the latter, Harvard has in Wright, Merrill and Pinkham a formidable trio and it is not absurd to expect them to capture all three places. Merrill and Pinkham will have a hard fight for second place with the chances somewhat in Merrill's favor. Wright of Yale will of course take first in the half mile run, while Harvard's hopes lie in Corbin for second and Batchelder for third, possibly Lakin. These two events ought to give...
...heartily endorse the action of the captains of the senior and junior nines in having the field roped off. The way in which both classes yesterday crowded down upon the base lines and seriously interfered with the game was simply absurd. The bounds of gentlemanly, legitimate behavior were widely overstepped, and the co-operation of the crowd instead of limiting itself to respectable encouragement and friendly guying, became an effort to win the game at any cost...