Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact is that at practically all our colleges the passion for athletic victories has carried expenditures to an absurd length. Head coaches are sometimes paid more for their eight-weeks season than a college professor gets for his entire year's work. To help him the coach must also have a regular squadron of assistants trainers and other subordinates, all of them drawing good salaries. No wonder it costs more to put one football gladiator on the gridiron than the average student spends in a whole year at college. Yet some of the institutions which can afford...
...root of the trouble is not hard to find. The intense rivalry between the various colleges, the subordination of everything to the desire for teams which will win, these things have led to absurd competition in expenditures. It is like the race for armaments. The argument is that no team can hope to win unless it can be provided with all high priced coaching, scouting, dieting and other paraphernalia that its rivals are getting. To the progressive development of that absurdity, as the Yale report wisely points out, there is no end in sight. The time has surely come, therefore...
...captain is the more efficient director of the sport, it is absurd to employ a coach...
...curriculum an efficient system of thorough military training." A minority of zealous pacificists last year were able, mainly through the CRIMSON to spread the impression, to use Mr. Roosevelt's phrase, that Harvard men were taking the lead the wrong way in having "anything to do with the absurd and mischievous professional-pacificist or peace-at-any-price movements." The CRIMSON'S policy has evidently been reversed, how ever, and the quick organization of the Harvard battalion proves that this minority has not succeeded in its efforts "tending to Chinafy Harvard...
...women,--between father and daughter, husband and wife, brother and sister. And unless we wish to contend further that women's opinions are inferior to men's we cannot but conclude that to confer the expression of opinion by the ballot exclusively upon the male sex is as absurd as it is unjust...