Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first by the class of 1905, will lose half their value and their full significance, when adopted by other classes. There might be some reason for Juniors to adopt class buttons, after the Seniors begin to wear their caps and gowns on May 1, but for Sophomores it seems absurd. JUNIOR...
...CRIMSON yesterday morning in an editorial of considerable ambiguity calls attention to an absurd rule passed last year by the Athletic Committee. This rule excludes Harvard athletes from representing the University in more than two of the periods into which the athletic year is divided. It is difficult to see what cap be said in defense of this rule. I have heard it argued that it was propounded because it is physically unwise to remain in training throughout the year. I contend that this is not borne out by existing facts. I have talked with several medical...
...argument that constant sport turns a man from his studies is equally absurd. If a man wants to study, there is plenty of time to do so; and if he doesn't wish to study more than the minimum required, no restriction of the kind that this rule enforces will compel him, or even incline him, to study more. There is plenty of time for a man to play on three University teams and get a degree "cum laude." It is merely a personal matter...
...private life lies not so much in what he may or may not have done but in the insatiable desire of journalism to cater to the public taste. The delusion which exists in many minds that the actors and actresses live the lives they portray is laughably absurd...
...poultry, sneezing twice to call his slave, is a successful comic centre for the tale. The story would be improved by a little more reasonableness of action--not reason; far be that from Boola Ban! Even foolishness, however, has its foolish laws, and there is a kind of absurd orderliness in nonsense. In the story "Getting Agnes," by J. L. Warren '08, there is not enough drawing of character to make one willing to forgive the commonplaceness of the theme. Perhaps it is the attitude of the pedagogue that prejudices me in favor of the Professor...