Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement on the first page of this issue will calm all anxiety. English 5 is to be continued, and conducted by the one man most capable to succeed Dean Briggs. It is, of course, nonsense to talk of Professor Copeland replacing Dean Briggs, just as it would be absurd to think of anyone replacing "Copey". Great men are never replaced. But a happy providence sometimes makes it possible that they succeed each other, and that providence has watched over English...
...absolutely required ... is only a species of legalized larceny. . . . The time is arriving when we can have further tax reduction, when, unless we wish to hamper the people in their right to earn a living, we must have tax reform. . . . This country believes in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that it is envious of those who are already prosperous. . . . The result of economic dissipation to a nation is always moral decay...
...incompatible with prestige in the latter. He supposes that President Lowell's development of the tutorial system and his hopes for its fostering of scholarship are regarded by alumni as a blow at athletic superiority and a cause of the University's recent defeats in major sport contests. Absurd as all this sounds, Mr. Nichols goes even further. He implies that the tempest of criticism which has stormed about the administration in past months has been aroused by the fear of alumni that Harvard's athletic reputation is at state. What Professor Baker and the rise of the Business School...
...Thomson's article is that the Pierian Sodality Orchestra is rapidly on the decline. This I know is not the case--in either case this matter would seem not to be within the jurisdiction of a "musical critic." It would seem that he draws his conclusion from the absurd caption "unskilled instrumentalists cannot rival professionals"--a statement the fallacy of which in connection with the Pierian Orchestra, made up of students, would at once be apparent to even an "adenoidial moron." Furthermore, were the Pierian Sodality in any such state of affairs, as Mr. Thomson describes, the Music Department...
...biting's immortal." We thought it absurd...