Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started anew the age-old controversy: "Should women confine their fiddling to the home? Is Love's Old Sweet Song the most ambitious composition that any female, however talented, should attempt to render?" Such questions are, of course, absurd; nor are there many remaining critics who can establish a reputation for mordacity by frequent quotation of Ruskin's remark that it is the province of man to create and woman to praise. Nevertheless, the fact remains that while orchestras of women are usually adequate, adeptly trained, they are seldom...
...your issue of Feb. 16, you say under the rather absurd heading MILESTONES: "Mr. Dempsey gave his occupation as "business man." Miss Taylor gave her age as 26 (probable age, 32)." I am not interested in either Mr. Dempsey or Miss Taylor. I do not care how old she is. Whether she lies about her age or not is entirely immaterial to most of your subscribers, no doubt. But, I do think it most undignified, in fact little short of childish, for such a magazine as TIME aspires to be to add in parthesis "probable age, 32." That...
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...tutors. Nor have classifications the discouraging rigidity of an alphabetical grade system. In time, when the present overemphasis on course grades becomes a memory only a student's scholastic rank will rest simply upon a report of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" on both his course and his tutorial work. The absurd preoccupation with delicately shaded course grades which now descends like a plague on the College at examination periods will them be a horror of the past. Some system of judging a man's work is necessary, but there is no reason why the present unbalanced and unjust machinery should...
This whole gripping scholastic drama is a farce. It is absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous. There is no place for it in a true school of humanism. As long as the only method of university instruction was that by courses, as system of marks and grading was a necessary administrative evil. But now that the tutorial system has risen; now that it begins to fulfill the promises of its advocates; now that its usefulness and power of future development are every-where recognized, the present system of and emphasis on grades is a galling chain fettering the future to a dead...