Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...debating? They are widely enough admitted, even if so few seek them. But aside from the value which it holds for the men who follow it, it may be of very significant, though little recognized, educational value to the men who listen to it. No one considers it absurd to urge men to support an athletic team; since there is something to be derived from a debate, it is not absurd to urge men to attend it. Of course the successful appeal is to popular opinion rather than to reason; but those who think carefully may find causes for their...
...whole swift and amusing. Its satire upon New York counterfeit society life is witty, and the dialogue is full of bright epigrams. The difficult lines were skillfully read, and all the parts well taken. Miss Ahrens and Miss Stickney gave plausibility to parts that might easily have seemed too absurd even for a farce. The author played the butler, and his acting was as comic as his play is clever...
...news of interest concerning the University that the University Press Club has been organized. In the past reports of the progress of the University in educational problems, of the contributions to knowledge and human welfare made here, and of the true development of student life have given place to absurd, and at times preposterous, tales about insignificant things. The Press Club realizes it cannot eliminate such stories, for there always exist many papers that care to print nothing else, but it does aim to give wider publication to Harvard news that should be known. If the new organization is successful...
...undertake military or naval training, to support the present nation-wide campaign to spend more and ever more in chasing the will-o'-the-wisp of military efficiency, is indeed revolting. To read in the daily papers that one who raised his voice to protest against such shameful and absurd proceedings was hissed and hooted at by enthusiastic Harvard students, makes one blush for one's Alma Mater...
...absurd, ridiculous. I challenge any advocate of these schemes to name one nation with the remotest intention of attacking us. As the risks of war decrease, we are asked to pay higher and yet higher rates of insurance. In the fiscal year 1910-11 we paid for the support of our army and navy over 43.3 percent, of our total expenditures, and 24.1 per cent, more for pensions, the burden of past wars--a total of over 440 million dollars--enough to build two hundred Widener libraries. The only possible way to stop this mad race of nations apparently trying...