Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very annoying as well as amusing is your attitude toward Ireland. All the absurd bigotry of the "Transcript" has prevaded your editorials, and, like the snobbish offspring of a similarly snobbish parent you now patronize Ireland in her new freedom. "Through Tara's Hall", your most recent plaint, is particularly snotty...
...consist in eating, the name food, wearing the same clothes, and doing things in common. Secondly, if individuality is really worth while, as at Harvard for instance, then democracy as pictured at West Point is not worth consideration. The hint that Harvard could gain in this way is absurd...
...that the University can learn nothing from the Academy is equality absurd. The mere fact that it is an institution of the highest rank with entirely different aims is basis enough for advocating an exchange of ideas. By ending professors, who are officers in the Reserves and thus eligible for West Point's teaching staff, and receiving men from the military faculty, or by some other feasible plan, Harvard might benefit to no small degree from West Point's educational methods-something it never can do as long as the Utopian democracy idea persists...
...Kane's credit let us repeat that he was "delighted to see the pep and enthusiasm of both the graduates and undergraduates". That is what the graduates want: they are a part of Harvard University and want recognition of the fact. It is absurd and unfair to say that his remark was "tactful", for that is not the spirit in which it was intended. He meant is as he stated it--a truth, which if only recognized by others, would clear the air, dispelling clouds of suspicion and dislike on the part of the undergraduates, and claiming for a more...
...want class officers, for the sake of tradition or for any other reason, they should be sure to vote tomorrow. But if they feel that officers are unnecessary, or that a new system of class organization should be tried, they should stay away from the polls. It is as absurd for a man to vote just because his roommate does or because he has a personal friend among the nominees as it is for him not to vote because he is too lazy. If the required sixty percent does not vote, the Student Council should take immediate steps...