Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discussion of a future policy is absurd. We can tell nothing about a scheme to be adopted later. Our question is of the present. Harvard has made this entirely a theoretical question. It is, on the contrary, practical and concrete. It should be settled at once upon conditions which exist. The question of bimetallism is no longer an open one. The evolution toward monometallism has not been natural. All the nations today are putting up with the evils of monometallism because they have given
...that the struggle need not be so violent and that "concerted action" might not be necessary. But that the scrimmage is brutal, that football clothes should not be worn, and so practically that the old scrimmage should develop into a formal presentation to each Senior of a boutenniere, is absurd. A man may take part in the scrimmage without losing dignity or without being brutal or ungentlemanly...
...moal questions we must consult not only our reason but our hearts. In such cases it would be absurd to bar out our wills. The simple question of the existence of moral truth cannot be answered by pure intellect. Moral skepticism can no more be refuted by logic than can intellectual skepticism...
...usual the specialties are the funniest feature of the play. "The Prisoner of Sunday," an absurd burlesque on the Prisoner of Zenda, by Schurz and Knoblauch, is the cleverest. The X-ray specialty by M. E Stone, Jr., '97 and H. A. Curtis '96 is very funny, and the Tyrolean dance by F. S. Hoppin '96 and H. B. Fenno '97 is both graceful and picturesque...
...have been a set of worthy scholars who craved for higher knowledge. The Sophists were characterized by their opponent, Plato, as the mere reflection of public opinion. Protagoras taught that whatever a man's opinion teaches him is true to that man. The lecturer closed by showing how utterly absurd are the violent charges of immorality attached to this system of belief...