Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short time ago we alluded to a letter in a recent number of London Field making sweeping and absurd charges against the amateur standing of American university athletes. We did not attempt any refutation of the charges because no intelligent American reader would have needed it to convince him of the utter ignorance of the Field's correspondent as to the way athletics are regulated in American Universities. We are very glad to find, however, that Mr. J. L. Coolidge '95 of the Mott Haven Team has written a letter to the Field, in reply to the member...
Such statements as these are too absurd to need refutation, but they show that in a time when American athletic ideals seem in danger of being lowered, the universities cannot throw the weight of their influence too strongly on the right side...
...were better for the life and morals of Boston that Harvard College were under the sea;" and again, "The effect of Harvard on the morals of Boston is about the same as that of a standing army of idle soldiers on a European garrison city." It may seem absurd to undertake the refutation of such purely calumnious assertions, yet it would surely be injurious to Harvard were they suffered to pass unnoticed. Were it not to guard against possible credence on the part of those as entirely ignorant of Harvard life as the writer in the Illustrated American, it would...
...teams, while the rest of the students sat on sofas, smoking cigarettes and betting on the results. Such a statement revealed, of course, an almost total ignorance of the athletic life of Harvard, and the effeminate picture presented of the average college man of today was too absurd to be anything but amusing...
...case. The Church now denies the concessions it made on being allowed to have freedom of worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with Protestants. Whether the Catholic Church will ever abandon its absurd claims to infallibility, it will always be the duty of its members to do their duty before...