Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the country perhaps it may seem absurd to bar a standard work like Webster; but New England as a whole and Boston in particular have a reputation to sustain. Law and Order, Liberty, and the Constitution have always found staunch support in the much maligned New England conscience. Other states may continue in their sordid ruts interpreting and tampering with the old traditions to suit their shifting advantages, but not so Massachusetts. Webster's is dangerous; the edict has gone forth; let it be abolished, even tho this mean Funk and Wagnall's, phonetic spelling and a thoro...
...excellent example. Without exception however, the cast rendered their parts well. Miss Cleveland was occasionally unconvincing and Mr. Turner's Romeo-like sobbing under the stress of grief was a bit absurd. But these are minor points. If the Jewett Company never dropped below the level of their current production, we should have little cause for complaint...
...present now; yet few will make any changes to minimize the importance of athletics. The "Times", in an editorial yesterday: "If all college students were 'gentlemen' we should need no rules at all."--a statement true but also common knowledge. And one reason is that colleges are for some absurd reason judged by athletic teams; so that men who are not gentlemen in the best sense go to college to achieve athletic reputations and perhaps a degree; so that alumni may back such men financially...
...extra-curriculum affairs, such a plan seems dangerous in many ways. There are activities which no scale of points can take into consideration, dances, or the positions necessary for those working their way through, either of which may end disastrously for the careless, although to curb either would be absurd. The amount a man undertakes in college is dependent wholly upon himself. No one else is competent to judge his capacity; and while his own estimate may be wrong the experience gained by success or failure is of considerable value...
...defend Homer, however, is as absurd today as it would be for modern theologians to argue on the number of angels who can dance on the point of a needle. It is no longer a matter of defense or attack, it is a matter of choice. There are always some who are interested enough to prefer Horace to bridge or Sophocles to A. H. Woods, to whom Athens is as real as Broadway. Literature is safe in their hands. Meanwhile the rest of us rush on regardless of the delights they offer us, to look for happiness in State Street...