Word: absurdity
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...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...
...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...
...most famous woman in the world, some have said, is Madame Curie, who honors the University with a visit next Monday. Partly because the world still clings to the absurd idea that any woman scientist is an extraordinary person, but chiefly because in Madame Curie it recognizes one of the foremost chemists of all time, her visit to this country has been one round of applause. We Americans have a way of exhausting our distinguished visitors with an elaborate program of events, accompanied by crowds of curious onlookers. Even the Prince of Wales, it is said, found his American tour...
...these days of high income taxes that ancient problem in cupid's mathematics of how to prove that "two can live as cheaply as one" is so absurd as it might at first seem. The Internal Revenue Department has become a sort of Beatrice Barefacts for the dissemination of advice to the matrimonially inclined. It is constantly being deluged by letters from all kinds of people, especially from worm who want to know what returns their husbands filed--a lamentable commentary one the state of marital confidence in this country. Like "tar-baby", however, the department "ain't saying' nothing...