Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action in refusing to extend the time for handing in prize essays, and also to editorials by Ladd, one calling attention to the communication and indorsing it, and another characterizing the marking system, compulsory attendance at religious exercises and the closing of the reading-room on Sunday as absurd features not by any means peculiar to Dartmouth, and advocating the formation of an association of students to supplement the power of petition. After a protracted meeting the faculty voted by a majority of one to expel the authors of the articles should they refuse to retract their statements. The minority...
...glad to see that these childish exhibitions are becoming more and more uncommon. A few years ago cremations and kindred celebrations were the rule and not the exception at many colleges; now, however, they are decidedly the exception. Brown college was the last to give up this absurd custom. At a meeting of the juniors last week the "majority of the class seemed of the opinion that the traditional funeral was an unenjoyable and senseless ceremony, and that it was belittling to the class to get up a circus and play the role of clowns for the benefit of outsiders...
...world by itself, which possesses innumerable sources of amusement on account of this very absence of outside attractions. Oxford presents a birds-eye-view, as it were, of English social life. Many of the clubs are copies of the London clubs, and social distinctions, which were formerly preserved with absurd exactness still exist, and the young representatives of the English nobility are still apt to secure the big prizes in the contest for social eminence and honors...
...proper view of the disturbances in the yard. No one can doubt that the faculty have contributed directly to the result. On Saturday the drums were stopped, and that aroused a hostile spirit which was sure to find vent in some way or other. Then on Monday night, the absurd remarks of an instructor, which received a greeting that on other occasions would have been disgraceful, and the puerile attempts of another, whose long experience should have taught him better, to send the men to their rooms, aroused the indignation of the students and a bonfire was inevitable...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Of course it would be absurd to find fault with students for rejoicing in the gratifying success of our nine. That the brass band and many students went to meet the nine on their arrival in Boston is commendable. If the whole college had turned out en masse to welcome their return to Cambridge and had spent an hour in the wildest expression of joy, such action would not have exceeded the demands of college patriotism. For whatever of this took place I have nothing but approval. But I consider it outrageous that through the whole evening...