Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most encouraging, but nevertheless, surprising development in this newly aroused discussion has been contributed by the undergraduate publications of several great Eastern colleges. Spurred by an editorial appearing in the Harvard CRIMSON which, after deploring the absurd overemphasis now placed on intercollegiate football contests, advocated such drastic reforms as sharply reduced schedules, abolition of scouts, spring practice, high-priced admission tickets, and sectional championships, while encouraging interclass games and coaching by graduates only, the student dailies of Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth voiced their strong condemnation of existing procedure. We believe that the editors of these publications are reflecting the sanest...
When will Americans become conscious that the nation to the north of them is something more than a setting for absurd half-breed plays, a hunting wilderness or a place to get a drink...
...Blum. He felt that with a little more obstruction he might force President Doumergue to ask him to form a cabinet. He announced that he would support M. Briand only if seven members of his faction were given practically all the important cabinet posts. M. Briand majestically refused so absurd a demand, refused to continue to form a cabinet at all, washed his hands publicly of the whole affair...
...editorial on Monday, November 30 is false. I certainly fail to see, in the academic relations between athletics and scholarship, that the last name has in any way come off second best. The statement that "the lusty infant (football)" has become stronger than its "parent" (the college), is absurd. It is well known that the scholastic requirements within the college itself, and the requirements towards entering college have been increased tremendously in the last six years. The so-called "President's" agreement between Harvard Yale and Princeton has been a further check on the feared ascendancy of football...
...college campus. That college athletics are beginning to does some of their glamor for the undergraduates (though not yet for the alumni) seems possible if for no other reason than that a change in fashion is about due a rising sense of boredom against so artificial and absurd and top heavy an institution. We note, for instance, an editorial in the Ohio State Candle for October in which college athletics receive a mereless keelhauling. The Nation...