Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Executive Committee of the Student Council said that the final settlement of the matter rested in the hands of the undergraduate body, and implied that the vote of the Forum, as expressing such opinion, would have an important bearing on the Council's decision next Monday. It is absurd to call last evening's vote an expression of undergraduate opinion. Altogether less than 3 per cent of the College voted in hockey's favor, and excluding those men vitally connected with the game as a University sport, only 1 and 1-2 per cent. In the discussion of other timely...
...academic study, but for these honors the rivalry is all too small. There is a very general impression among undergraduates that leads them to believe that only those men who are doing graduate or research work in a subject are properly fitted to try for a prize. But how absurd this really is! Prizes are given to arouse interest in fields of study among those who presumably have not already mastered all the standard works available, and for this reason the subjects for prize essays are chosen from among the simpler topics. In many cases a general introductory course...
...said by many people that sooner or later Japan will be tempted to seize the Philippines, then the Hawaian Islands, then the Pacific Coast ports. This claim is absurd, for Japan would gain absolutely no advantage from any such movement. In the first place Japan has no money to carry on such a war as would be inevitable if such seizures were made, and in the second place Japan in attacking the possessions of the United States would at the same time threaten the English, French, Russian, and Dutch positions in the East. In other words, if Japan attacks...
...teacher. Apparently there are still many "college men" who are strongly addicted to the puerile habit of stamping. As a means of expressing approval or disapproval of what a lecturer says, the use of a pair of large and hardy feet (organs indispensable in many emergencies) is absurd. Men of impulsive natures with frequent and acute temptations to stamp in lectures, should practice self-restraint. If they must give vent to their feelings let them lock themselves in their rooms after the lecture is over, and calling to mind all the humorous incidents of the hour, stamp to their hearts...
...probable, though not yet evident, that reform here is needed. If it is true that the editors stifle criticisms, in the form of communications, here surely they are at fault. Yet in my four years' connection with the paper such was never its policy. And in fact it is absurd to suppose that the paper should do other than encourage communications, for which it is never itself responsible. Again, if it is true that the CRIMSON does not lend enough space to reports of lectures, to dramatic criticism and to other subjects of purely intellectual interest, the mistake is easily...