Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball game. One point, however, in an editorial on this subject which was contained in last Monday's News calls for further comment. The HERALD-CRIMSON, we wish to state, has no "eagerness to attack" either the News or Yale itself. Such an assertion is not only unwarranted but absurd. And further, we did not "deliberately mis-state" the item, as the editorial so courteously puts it. We gave it what we considered a most natural interpretation, and beg to disagree with the News when it states that "it could not justly be construed as it was." While on this...
...foot-ball. We must all of us, faculty and students, understand, once for all, that it is just as impossible for the average man to excel in athletics without instruction, as it would be for him to excel in his studies without instruction; and that it is just as absurd to expect an uncoached crew, nine, foot-ball, lacrosse or cricket team from Harvard to beat a well coached team of another college, as it would be to expect a set of Harvard men who had received no instruction whatever in Greek prose or Calculus to surpass in an examination...
...university may be called success-influenced, therefore, by every conceivable prejudice of authority, experience and personal vanity in its favor. I can only give my emphatic conclusion that every year the practice of it appears to me increasingly deplorable, and the theory of it every year increasingly absurd...
...conform to a religious ritual despite their own wishes or the wishes of their parents or guardians. To believe that any improvement in the character of the service is bound to reconcile the college to its involuntary bondage and to remove the anomalous character of the proceeding is absurd. In everything else the college refuses to stand in loco parentis. In this matter it insists upon so standing. And yet here, even it fails in really occupying the position of parent in relation to the students. The custom (and possibly the wishes) of a large majority of the parents...
...that the Columbia race has been rowed, and Harvard has so completely disposed of the absurd story of her fear of last year, we hope that measures will be taken toward giving up the Columbia race. We can afford to withdraw after such a victory, and devote ourselves entirely to Yale, as Yale devotes her energies entirely to defeating Harvard. The disadvantages of the race with Columbia are too many and too well known to require description. We think we voice the sentiment of the college in asking that the race in the future be given up. Columbia is satisfied...