Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems like a strange contradiction that journals professedly religious and temperate should be the most prone to indulge in intemperate and preposterous charges against the morality of college life. A most absurd and unfounded slander upon Harvard students, charging upon them the grossest and most flagrant intemperance, appears in a late number of the National Temperance Advocate, a story which it would be superfluous to deny. There may be a kind of temperance which the journal we have quoted does not profess to advocate but which motives of consistency might move it to adopt. Temperance of speech...
...writer denies the 'existence of "forced religious training" at Harvard, because, although after the student comes to Cambridge, he is obliged to attend religious exercises, yet he is not obliged, in the first place, to come there. Secondly, he holds that Harvard's position is not "illogical and absurd," because in other affairs besides college exercises men are trusted on their honor, although it is known that all men cannot invariably be relied upon. The present church and chapel regulations may, he concludes, be inexpedient, but in order to obtain voluntary prayers, there is need of sounder reasons than those...
...Vassarites want a woman on the board of trustees, claiming that it is just as absurd to have a board composed entirely of men as it would be to have the Harvard board composed entirely of women...
...waste of hot water in the gymnasium, it is proposed to charge every person who takes a hot bath the sum of five cents." The above statement has no foundation in fact, as far as official proposal is concerned. The authorities of the gymnasium contemplate making no such absurd charge...
...race. The graduate committee wished to settle the Columbia matter before tackling these other questions. Yale's challenge was sent Oct. 18, and its receipt promptly acknowledged. Yale ought to understand the matter perfectly well, and this action of hers seems to Harvard men a most absurd piece of poppycock. It is a tempest in a tea-pot. - [Boston Globe...