Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will agree with my opinion for it certainly seems a rather shabby proceeding to give such a poor place to the coaches which hitherto have had at least a respectable position on the field. I trust that measures will be promptly taken for altering what seems to me very absurd and unwise plans, and that all men who attend the game on coaches may have an even chance with other spectators...
...also given first and on a hit of Willard's got home. Henshaw was out by a grounder, pitcher to first. Willard reached third. Hawley was given first and forced to second. Evans was out on first. Corning got second by errors and Willard scored. Hawley did some absurd base running but reached home. Corning got home on third's fumble. McLeod did not get to first. Corning stopped Allen's hit and put him out at first. Boyden's long hit was caught by Linn and third to first stopped Smith. Dean got a base on balls, Linn...
...interests of this department. A report has gone abroad in the college, due largely to an unfortunate misunderstanding of a remark of one of the members of the newly organized club, that the men who come to Harvard from other colleges owe no allegiance to the University. Such an absurd rumor scarcely needs refutation. It is true that the most of these men come here as graduates of other institutions, and that their first allegiance is due to these institutions; but that they are also loyal to Harvard, and are interested in her advancement, needs no better demonstration than...
...first absurd mistakes in the interpretation of Homer were very frequent. This was especially so before the Renaissance, but even modern scholars have sometimes soberly offered the most ridiculous theories to explain Homeric difficulties. However, the study of Homer at the present time is more intelligent than ever before, one reason being that our text is a very pure one, better even than the one used by Virgil. The subject matter of the poem, too, has been thoroughly illumined by the united learning of many eminent scholars; mythology, likewise, is better understood, as is also the civilization of the Homeric...
...those who are conversant with the facts of the case, such talk is absurd. The charge of "all restraint being taken away" is wholly false. Each professor exercises full power over any student who cuts his course oftener than the instructor thinks advisable and such power extends even to expulsion from the course. It is not seldom taken advantage of. To say that the Board of Overseers have proved their wisdom is to reflect upon President Eliot, the one best fitted to judge of the matter...