Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...enough that our athletic spirit has become so extravagantly shaped by outside influences--the newspapers and the public who have sat astride of us and spurred us into an absurd athletic gallop--and we should be suspicious of any tendency to emphasize the spectacular side of Class Day, or Commencement. Both these institutions have been built up for many years by the customs and traditions of many classes, and changing them because we have been presented with a fine amphitheatre is akin to coasting in June because someone has given us a toboggan. In spite of the fact that Sanders...
...caricature, and in the verse, that a certain weakness makes itself felt. Wit and humor have a narrow field in a College paper, but a very propitious one, since in College every one is or ought to be merry and everything has a right to seem somewhat novel and absurd. Let us hope the class of 1905, after furnishing the Lampoon with a lawful but will furnish it with a Howarth or two and one or two Herricks, to catch the momentary sparkle of our small world...
...incompetent or dishonest, or both. They suggest vague misfortunes which are likely to overwhelm the Society as soon as the stockholders get control. But they do not point to any specific harm that is likely to befall, and if they stop to think a moment, they will see how absurd such a supposition is. Is it conceivable that members of the Faculty, who are legally bound by the conditions on which they receive their stock not to make personal profit out of the business, whose interests are closely bound with those of the students, who are peculiarly subject to popular...
...author. This perhaps is responsible for the bewilderment of the reader who looks seriously for a purpose in the verses, for something more than an outre style of phrase or rhythm. In "The Twilight of the Race," for example, the elaborate simplicity in many places approaches the absurd, for it seems studied, not natural. The best work in the book is at the end, in the "Lyrics of a Life." Some of these are not unmusical, and they show fewer signs of self consciousness than the more pretentious efforts...
...jokes and stories, the shorter pieces are the best, with perhaps one exception in favor of "Sherlock Holmes in Cambridge." The latter stays closely enough by its model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails...