Word: absurdity
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...notable exception occurred in 1885 when the builders of the Canadian Pacific decided that a golden spike would be absurd after the vyay they had worked to save money, that a good iron spike for the last would do as well as one did for the first...
When your correspondent mentions "the hallowed anachronisms of early Christian institutions" and "the absurd circumlocutions of early Church Fathers," he is, incidentally, insulting the faith and intelligence of every Roman Catholic in college. Cuthbert Wright...
...such an extent as to make him ineligible for another. It has little or nothing to do with whether or not he would make a desirable member of the House. To rule out a student who has much to recommend him because of such an irrelevant factor would be absurd. Even if the regulation had a logical excuse it should be one adjustable to particular situations, instead of stringently enforced with no regard for circumstances. There is no reason why the Houses should antagonize even a small number of undergraduates by adopting unnecessary regulations of this kind...
...give the course in an excellent and scholarly fashion without any undue obeisance to the hallowed anachronisms which characterized early Christian institutions, to say nothing of its latter day successors. Institutional religion (which, I fear me, Cuthbert confuses with Religion) has been subject to trial and error and the absurd circumlocutions of the early church fathers justly merit amusement for their logic as well as veneration for their audacity. I suggest that if liberality of approach be too much for Cuthbert he might strike his tents from the pleasances of Cambridge and set them up in Bob Jones College, Florida...
...practice it is easy to argue that what a man does on a Harvard weekend, or what he might do during Christmas or summer vacation is no-body's business but his own. Carried to an extreme, this argument is absurd. It is obvious that the College could not tolerate a man who has been definitely accused of murder during the summer vacation. But it is hard to admit that a comparatively minor indiscretion should concern any one beside the individual and such others as have been directly connected. It is no more the concern of a man's educational...