Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what pleasure or profit they can gain from membership. The ideal aim of keeping alive inter-collegiate amity and good feeling is all very well and is undoubtedly one of the subsidiary objects of the league; but to claim this as its chief object is absurd. We hope our friends at Williams will see the justice of these considerations...
...Lake George, the university might have some cause for complaint, but as we never expected to enter that regatta or give the University of Pennsylvania any reason to think we would enter, all their charges are as "empty as the wind." As for rowing Princeton - but that is too absurd...
...Amherst play tennis with Trinity, base-ball with Williams and Dartmouth; let Columbia play lacrosse with nobody and foot-ball with Stevens, the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers. Meanwhile, we'll promise not to ask to row in eights on the Thames, or to do anything else equally absurd...
...some exceptions, the finest players in the country; and, while we have no doubt both Harvard and Yale would return a courteous reply, were an invitation to join such a league as we propose extended them, it seems to us such an invitation, considering all circumstances, would be rather absurd and might be justly so considered by them." The suggestion seems to us an excellent one and one worthy of adoption by the colleges named. Only we hope these colleges would not then become so wrapped up in the interests of the league as to refuse to play occasional practice...
...undeniable that the present marking system is productive of most pernicious results. We have this fact presented to us very forcibly at times, but never so forcibly as when one comes to select his electives for his next year's course. It is obviously absurd to say that men are governed principally by the consideration of probable marks and severity of examinations usually given, in selecting a course; but that with many this thought does have some influence, cannot be denied, and as long as there is no perfectly uniform system of marking adopted in the college, it is very...