Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that in the hour of actual test, his mind may be made free to wage "an intelligent warfare." Aside from statements like the following: "It is impossible to cultivate a soldierly posture without feeling the dignity of one's manhood," which he will pardon me for calling a little absurd--Mr. Allport's article seems to me extremely sound and valuable...
...asked to take a chair "held by such men as Professor Palmer and Professor Royce." The implication that Mr. Russell's ability and achievements as a philosopher are slight and not comparable to those of the men whom Harvard has, in the last few years, lost, is too wholly absurd to be taken seriously by anyone who has kept at all abreast of modern philosophic thought. Mr. Russell has established himself so firmly in philosophy that it is not untrue to say that in England today there is a "Russian school." Professor Royce remarked on one occasion, at least, that...
...better either than the elimination of paid coaches or the abandonment of intercollegiate sport would be a constructive campaign designed to retain the good that arises from association of our seats of learning upon the field of sport, and to exercise the bad. That evil exists it would be absurd to deny, but there is an overbalancing weight of desirable features. Were Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania to enlist themselves in a body designed to place a limit upon the salaries of coaches, the number of coaches engaged, team expenses--in short, to curtail and generally supervise...
...Coaches should be put on a faculty standard," said Mr. Day. "They should be like college professors, and you ought not to have any coaches who could not be used as tutors for undergraduates. It seems absurd that they should receive as much money as college presidents. They should serve for the love of coaching...
Briefly the comedy shows the effect upon the varied persons of Reinhartz, Pa., of the coming of the superficially absurd, yet clear seeing, deep feeling Susan. She marries Dreary, the swinish skinflint, to help the much-set-upon daughter, Barnabetta. Dreary kindly dies between the acts--having become an insurmountable obstacle in the pursuit of happiness--the step-mother reforms her eccentricities, the daughter casts aside her drudge's guise and blossoms as an Emerson-reading flower of Boston schooling, and in the thrill of the Governor's presence and a lover's kiss the play ends...