Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope has been expressed in some quarters that the race will be started at 5 even if conditions are not completely favorable. This is absurd. There is far too much in the balance to allow the weather to play even a minor part in the outcome. The men have trained too long to even consider the comfort of the crowd rather than the absolute merits of the crews. Pray for a fair day indeed but if it be otherwise by all means let the burden not be on the crews. --Yale News...
...Does it conflict with a tradition?" but rather "Is the tradition applicable to modern methods, and will the proposed reform give us better, more efficient government?" We have allowed vague references to Washington's Farewell Address to be urged as applicable to present international relations, and such absurd arguments have helped keep the country back from entering the League of Nations. Let us not let these arguments stand in the way of good government...
...other hand, without its extra-curriculum activities Harvard would not be able to function on the same basis as other American colleges. The one is as essential as the other. Blanket condemnation of private schools, based on the scholastic standing of their alumni in the colleges, is foolish and absurd...
...periodic theory, as we have not had a crisis for ten to twenty years. There is little reason for seriously considering this theory. For according to it a crisis was due several years ago. Conditions are constantly changing especially during the last few years and it is absurd to believe in a theory as old and as much ridiculed as the periodic theory...