Word: absurdity
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...other hand, without its extra-curriculum activities Harvard would not be able to function on the same basis as other American colleges. The one is as essential as the other. Blanket condemnation of private schools, based on the scholastic standing of their alumni in the colleges, is foolish and absurd...
...periodic theory, as we have not had a crisis for ten to twenty years. There is little reason for seriously considering this theory. For according to it a crisis was due several years ago. Conditions are constantly changing especially during the last few years and it is absurd to believe in a theory as old and as much ridiculed as the periodic theory...
This opinion is too absurd to be permitted to stand. But the first move to eradicate it must come from us. If some little notice on our part were given to the West, such as taking the trouble to send a football team on a long tour, the West will not be slow in response. Such action could not bear the stigma of propaganda. It would be no more than healthy community interest...
...fact that so small a number of ballots were cast in the elections of last Tuesday, and goes on to say that "Such a disgraceful lack of interest in class affairs must surely arouse the indignation of all undergraduates." In view of your published figures this statement is rather absurd. Do you desire that the 1566 recalcitrant students who did not vote should become fiercely indignant with themselves, or do you think that the 389 faithful voters constitute the entire body of undergraduates...
...picture. Private labor can organize. It has done so with great benefits and many attendant evils to public comfort. The organization of municipal employee can receive a lesson from New York City. A Unionization of federal employees in an an organization autocratic by its very nature if absurd...