Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This opinion is too absurd to be permitted to stand. But the first move to eradicate it must come from us. If some little notice on our part were given to the West, such as taking the trouble to send a football team on a long tour, the West will not be slow in response. Such action could not bear the stigma of propaganda. It would be no more than healthy community interest...
...fact that so small a number of ballots were cast in the elections of last Tuesday, and goes on to say that "Such a disgraceful lack of interest in class affairs must surely arouse the indignation of all undergraduates." In view of your published figures this statement is rather absurd. Do you desire that the 1566 recalcitrant students who did not vote should become fiercely indignant with themselves, or do you think that the 389 faithful voters constitute the entire body of undergraduates...
...picture. Private labor can organize. It has done so with great benefits and many attendant evils to public comfort. The organization of municipal employee can receive a lesson from New York City. A Unionization of federal employees in an an organization autocratic by its very nature if absurd...
...industrial conference at Washington comes none too soon. It sees labor, Capital, and the Public gathered together to solve ourdemoralizing problem. The public's representation is highly significant. It is given a chance for protection against further absurd Capital and Labor relationships. Reduction in wage and price is out of the question. But an increase must not be. This is what the public must demand. At most there can only be a gradual adjustment to the present scale of wage and price. Retracing steps to the former standard of living would provoke a greater strain on society than adjustment...
Customs are always interesting if they are neither absurd or harmful. No one has ever been known who was inspired into daily activity by the clanger of the seven o'clock bell. When the five minutes duration of sounding is multiplied by three hundred, this number of students living in the yard, it will be seen that sixty hours of sleep are lost per day by these unfortunate students...