Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Accordingly, though there is a fair amount of justice in a plea for no beer, based on personal opinion, it seems rather absurd to argue the point on the basis of a wrecked constitution. HAMPDEN HALL...
...married before Fanny Bilbock, an American who has consented to marry him on the understanding that he has no children, finds out the deception. The three suitors for the daughters' hands and the arrival of the Vicomte de l'Estrapade, who is in love with Miss Bilbock, afford many absurd situations and much amusing dialogue. The play has been put on in Paris with much success...
...Saturday's CRIMSON you published a very clear argument against our absurd little Christmas vacation, but it seems to me that one other question might be raised on the subject, one pertaining to finances...
...lengthy. One editorial sets squarely before the University the blight which the Freshman dormitories threaten--a College of mob-driven athletics and "class spirit." The other, under the rather surprising through flattering title, "Shall Harvard Menace Neutrality?" puts that reputed difficulty before us about as clearly as such an absurd possibility can be demonstrated...
...only difference between the two is that the unfairness of cheating in examinations is a little more palpable and its consequences may be a little heavier as regards grades; yet this is plainly a difference of degree and not of kind, and it is easily reduced to the absurd by considering the comparative evil of copying three of four dates in an examination, and copying the major part of a thesis, the first of which actions is condemned, while the second is condoned. It is high time that public opinion should awaken to the artificiality of the distinction herein contained...