Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Under this title the current number of the Nation publishes an article which is valuable inasmuch as it corrects very absurd opinions frequently expressed on the subject. Following are some of the extracts...
...mean for an instant to give color to the charge, which would be absurd if it were not so frequent, that money is a recognized standard of social position at Harvard, that men of limited means are deliberately excluded from any college society, or that a man is ever elected to one simply because he is rich, much as certain public men are elected to the Senate. A man who has nothing but money to recommend him is much more surely put in unenviably conspicuous solitude at Harvard than in most parts of the world...
...ought certainly to have enough food, and good food at that. But as an accurate fact, on Friday and Saturday, at one table at least, there was an insufficiency of potatoes; and of the few which were served, two in every three were bad, absolutely bad. Is it not absurd that the famous dining hall of the largest and most respected university in America should offer to its seven hundred boarders potatoes, of which two out of every three are bad? In sober earnest, we think the proper authorities should look into the matter at once, if for no other...
...enlargement of its religious privileges. Nowhere have I witnessed a grander service than the daily morning chapel service heartily conducted by a thousand gentlemen. But as I look over this sea of faces, I ask myself, 'how shall I be brought into closer sympathy with these men?' It is absurd to talk of irreligion and atheism here; for a university is the thermometer of the community from which the students are recruited. There are many electiues here, but life is not one of them; we must live. Therefore let us live that largest life possible, the life of a true...
...goodies" has crowned the efforts of the occupants. They are obliged to leave them to the mercies of Class Day crowds. When they come back to them in the fall, the complaints are frequent in regard to the state in which their rooms are left. It seems absurd to have to speak upon such a subject, but if the temporary occupants would use the ordinary care they do upon their own rooms, there would be no need of this...