Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sources of our knowledge of Christ. Hesitating to handle the Bible as boldly as Christ himself did, and to clear away from his unique figure the mass of erroneous accretions of all sorts which inferior disciples are responsible for Unitarians in both England and America are in the absurd position of sacrificing Cnrist to Paul and Matthew...
...Yale once more claims the college championship in rowing. How absurd this is. We should think that a college that can boast of so many real achievements would disdain to stoop to claiming what they have no right to. Yale rows but one race, and refuses all other challenges, and then claims the championship of all the colleges. If any college has a right to such claim, it is the University, for we have by far the best record of any. but we make no such claim...
...that there was nothing in a young man's life on which he himself or his parents should be so competent to form an opinion as the time and place at which be should pray to Almighty God, and that there was no duty to which it was more absurd to drive him by law under defined penalties. And yet this is what the college authorities, who are steadily converting Harvard into a university in the large sense, insist on doing. The President and Fellows unluckily do not give their reasons, but the only creditable reasons must be either...
...have called the contrivance known as English grammar absurd, and the study of it a useless study; and I verily and soberly believe both these assertions to be true. I believe that the effect of the study of English grammar, so called, is to cramp the free action of the mind; to bewilder and confuse where it does not enfeeble and formalize; to pervert the perception of the true excellence of English speech; and, in brief, to substitute the sham of a dead form for the reality of a living spirit. Where words have no varying forms indicative of their...
...Dartmouth is not anxious for an oratorical association. It says: "Oratorical contests are often opposed by faculties as tending to create false standards of public speaking. But, setting aside all objections that may be urged against existing associations, the idea of forming a new one seems a little absurd. It would be much better to have inter-collegiate spelling contests, or, if spelling is too easy, let chemical formulae be substituted for words. While we are about it, we might also institute inter-collegiate mathematical examinations, or perhaps some contest to see which college gives the best instruction in Greek...