Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hazen, chief signal officer of the United States army, said this afternoon that there were no indications of any unusual weather tomorrow. He said he thought the prediction made by Wiggins was absurd...
...fastened satisfactorily upon no one. As a rule, we think that every athletic contest, especially an inter-collegiate contest, should be governed by a set of definite written rules. In this way no college will be enabled by mere technicality to claim a superiority which is ridiculous and absurd...
...faculty, will do well to quit college immediately, or invoke a full pardon, as such outrages cannot remain undiscovered and unpunished. The resolution of the sophomores to stand together in such dirty matters is discreditable and childish. How can these young men justify their co-operation in cowardice and absurd defiance...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: That aspect of Harvard's position in the matter of compulsory church and chapel attendance, which is most illogical and undeniably absurd, it seems to me, has hardly been called into view by the recent discussions in the Nation and other papers. Why is it that the principle of compulsory attendance is made to apply in some cases while in others it is altogether evaded? Why are those who live in or near Boston and who reside at home excused from attendance at church and in most cases from chapel, while those who come from more distant...
...first place, this is in a large number of instances not the case, and where it is true the society is obviously the cause, and no one can doubt that its existence is necessary to keep the prices down. Such criticisms of the society are not only absurd but show a want of public spirit. But that carefully considered criticisms and suggestions from the members of the society may be of great value to the management cannot be doubted, and such criticisms and suggestions should be brought forward at the coming meeting...