Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...argument in abolishing it,--that something must be done to appease the Faculty,--seems absurd. It is a poor policy to abolish hockey to preserve the schedules of the major teams intact, especially when the question at hand rose wholly from the major sports. It is urged that the hockey team plays too many games away from Cambridge. If this is so, it will be avoided next year by the erection of a new rink in Boston, where all games may be held, and which will greatly reduce the number of trips taken by the team at present...
...Upper Congo alone, which explains the many false reports by missionaries and others who have penetrated only the Lower Congo to the effect that they do not exist. Mr. Clark showed that the contention of Leopold that the exactions of tribute on the natives is for public improvements, is absurd. His sole aim is to drive the natives to their limit in gathering India rubber for his consumption, and the instances of cruelty on the part of soldiers to gain this end are barbarous beyond belief. Not only are their bodies mutilated, but they are frequently killed and eaten...
...satirical, as the "Suggestion for Gore Hall," "The Insignia Craze at Harvard," and "Why change your hatband every day?" The two last mentioned are especially appropriate as a protest against the growing love of wearing distinguishing insignia, a custom contrary to tradition except on Class Day. It would be absurd for us to allow this trend to lead to fraternity pins and grips which is its natural outcome. Some of the jokes are very good but are hardly equal to the longer prose pieces, especially "Lampy's Little Lampoonlets." Mr. Dooley, on the other hand, is hardly as good...
...current number of the Monthly contains a harsh editorial comment on the young instructor at Harvard--a somewhat exaggerated statement, written from a not altogether unbiased point of view. After discussing the absurd position in which certain Seniors have been placed by appointment to positions as assistants in courses where they must correct the work of their own classmates, the editorial proceeds to discredit the entire system of employing men but recently graduated, as instructors in undergraduate courses. Such "a man," says the editorial, "who goes directly from his undergraduate work here into the work of teaching other Harvard undergraduates...
...impossible for any Harvard man, who has seen the play, not to regard it as a false and absurd representation of Harvard life, which does not even plead the excuse of being a travesty. There is abundant proof that the play has been accepted as authentic in many of the large cities in this country. It was applauded at Yale...