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...advocates' objections to IRRC's role are "absurd," Farber said in an interview. "We are not in competition. The excellent feedback we've been getting proves we're performing a service that institutions want and that existing groups simply can't perform," Farber said...
...conditions on some gifts verge on the absurd. In this category would go the famous donation of the mother of Harry Elkins Widener, who insisted, among other things, that all students be required to swim 50 yards before graduating from Harvard. Less well known is the case of a recent donor, a Medical School alumnus, who required that the income from his grant to the med school go to a student renowned for extracurricular activity and "medical unproductivity and scholastically idle diversion." If no student of these qualifications could be found, the money must go to the Medical student deemed...
...difficult to determine the extent of Harvard's obligation under this agreement, and probably absurd to fight through the legalese of a 300-year-old commitment. Daniel Steiner '54, the University's legal counsel, contends that Harvard has not violated any of its three Indian trust funds. Although Flaherty's bill is still in committee, the attorney general decided his office should handle the matter, and he appointed a Boston lawyer last week to investigate...
...days of space ships, compulsory military service becomes ridiculous and dangerously absurd, as well as obscene. Our involvement as an aggressor in Indochina is a prize example of this danger. Without this Congressional Slave act, this nation could not have, in my judgment, been led by its pactomania mad-men into a war of naked and raw agression upon a peasant people who have never threatened this nation's security in any way and could not, even if they wished, which they do not. Our youth are much too intelligent and sophisticated for such utter nonsense...
...authorities have been searching through Glistrup's books for some secret that would explain his legerdemain, but Glistrup insists that there is no secret. "My yearly accounts are always negative," he boasts. "I explain this to the tax people. They agree. As a lawyer, I should welcome this absurd theater, so absurd that it beats Ionesco completely, but what I want to do is show how unreasonable these tax laws...