Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Watson in "The New Petruchio" tells us the most absurd of yarns in the most charming manner--so that what we too want to know is: "Will it Last...
Such a condition is little short of shameful; it betokens indifference, laziness and absurd overconfidence. Harvard can't win games on its reputation. The eleven next fall can't rely upon the record of Harvard teams of past years to overawe and subdue its opponents. Beating Yale is not a habit by any means. The debacle in the Bowl has not been forgotten, and unless the men in College wish to see it avenged on the University eleven next fall, they must get busy now building up a strong team...
...anxious mother who once wrote to Dean Hurlbut to please see that her son wore overshoes regularly was far wiser in the lore of Cambridge than tradition paints her. After all; it is not entirely absurd to ask that the ruling powers pay some heed to the condition of our feet,--by minding what it is that we walk on, and by ceasing to play at watchful walting with Providence...
...give the undergraduates the sense that they are being "balked." By flatly recognizing that athletics are run on a system often, superior to the discipline of the college, by studying their technic, and applying it to their own methods, our faculties could more easily oust athletics from their present absurd position of primary importance. Admit the disciplinarian's point of view, and you admit that young men can only progress under very hard taskmasters or as slaves on the athletic field to a physical, in the classroom to a mental, ideal. This ideal our colleges must make clear and tempting...
...present system of national citizenship which compels a nation to avenge a wrong done to one of its citizens in a foreign country with the sacrifice of many lives and a great deal of money, is absurd. International citizenship would assure justice without warfare...