Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University Register, in outward appearance the same as in the past, is put on sale today. It is unfortunate that a really use full book should this year be chiefly remarkable for the large number of absurd mistakes in the spelling of names and in the use of initials. Faulty proof-reading is no doubt partly to blame; but this makes it no less edifying to see the name of Class Day Mardhal mangled, or to learn that the 1903 Freshman ballnine won by a score of 20 to 1 from Prufret Acadmey, or to see one name rolled...
...physician's robe and gives it to Crispin, who immediately puts it on. The new arrival proves to be a servant who has come to avail herself of Mirobolan's reputed power as a clairvoyant. Crispin of course has to play the role of the physician, and many absurd complications follow. He finally makes his escape, and is sent at once by Geralde to get the promised money from Lisidor. The latter has meanwhile discovered Geralde's deception, and a stormy scene follows. Crispin returns empty handed, and is sent, in spite of his terror, to Mirobolan's house...
...seizes a physician's robe and gives it to Crispin, who immediately putsit on. The new arrival proves to be a servant who has come to avail herself of Mirobolan's reputed power as a clairvoyant. Crispin of course has to play the role of the physician, and many absurd complications follow. He finally makes his escape, and is sent at once by Geralde to get the promised money from Lisidor. The latter has meanwhile discovered Geralde's deception, and a stormy scene follows. Crispin returns empty-handed, and is sent, in spite of his terror, to Mirobolan's house...
...editorials are extremely apt, and the second one in particular deals humorously and in a new way with old college complaints. Of the stories, "Hawkins of Cold Cape," by Carrol More, is the most entertaining. It is funny from beginning to end, and although absurd on its face never seems absolutely improbable. "The Story of Nellie and Jack," by E. A. Wye '01, is well told, though the curious dialect is rather trying on the reader. Dialect stories have to be very good indeed to make up for the difficulty of struggling through the sentences. "In at the Death...