Word: absurdity
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...replied, "One's absurd...
...tutors. Nor have classifications the discouraging rigidity of an alphabetical grade system. In time, when the present overemphasis on course grades becomes a memory only a student's scholastic rank will rest simply upon a report of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" on both his course and his tutorial work. The absurd preoccupation with delicately shaded course grades which now descends like a plague on the College at examination periods will them be a horror of the past. Some system of judging a man's work is necessary, but there is no reason why the present unbalanced and unjust machinery should...
This whole gripping scholastic drama is a farce. It is absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous. There is no place for it in a true school of humanism. As long as the only method of university instruction was that by courses, as system of marks and grading was a necessary administrative evil. But now that the tutorial system has risen; now that it begins to fulfill the promises of its advocates; now that its usefulness and power of future development are every-where recognized, the present system of and emphasis on grades is a galling chain fettering the future to a dead...
...obtained last evening of the reported crime wave at the University, the CRIMSON did get in touch with Father Dorr, a close friend and fellow pastor of Father Kelly. He categorically denied that Father Kelly made any such remarks as were reported, and said, "The whole thing is absurd...
...good; but his lordship allowed his irritation to rule his Salisbury head. He accused the U. S. of using more opium and narcotic drugs than the people of India, whose sacred rights he was also representing.- Such absurd charges all but broke up the conference. Mr. Porter took the earliest opportunity of rising to confront Lord Cecil with his black slander on the U. S. A situation had undoubtedly been created that called for diplomatic handling. Mr. Porter was anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile...