Word: absurdity
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...seizes a physician's robe and gives it to Crispin, who immediately putsit on. The new arrival proves to be a servant who has come to avail herself of Mirobolan's reputed power as a clairvoyant. Crispin of course has to play the role of the physician, and many absurd complications follow. He finally makes his escape, and is sent at once by Geralde to get the promised money from Lisidor. The latter has meanwhile discovered Geralde's deception, and a stormy scene follows. Crispin returns empty-handed, and is sent, in spite of his terror, to Mirobolan's house...
...editorials are extremely apt, and the second one in particular deals humorously and in a new way with old college complaints. Of the stories, "Hawkins of Cold Cape," by Carrol More, is the most entertaining. It is funny from beginning to end, and although absurd on its face never seems absolutely improbable. "The Story of Nellie and Jack," by E. A. Wye '01, is well told, though the curious dialect is rather trying on the reader. Dialect stories have to be very good indeed to make up for the difficulty of struggling through the sentences. "In at the Death...
...provided with its amateur certificates before competing in games held under its auspices has caused much dissatisfaction in the I. C. A. A. A. A. The objections were that the fee of one dollar was enough to keep many novices from competing and, more important, that it seemed absurd for amateurs approved by college athletic committees to be forced to buy from the A. A. U. an additional certificate of their amateur standing...
...bring forward what seemed to the writer a practical suggestion which ought to be considered. Wholly without intending it, he so phrased the letter, that several crew managers, including at least one graduate, felt that the communication implied dishonesty on their part. Of course such a motion is somewhat absurd, and those concerned probably realize it by this time. It also appears that the suggestion as to purchasing shells is not a new one. The management have considered it before, and have good practical reasons for setting it aside...
...talk about "favoritism," "indifference," and the other absurd explanations of Harvard's lack of success in intercollegiate contests is a mass of nonsense. The radical difficulty which lies back of the whole situation is that undergraduates are left to do as best they may without organized conservative advice from older heads. Harvard's competitors have today systems of permanent supervision, supplied by shrewd, mature men. Harvard has nothing of this beyond what is supplied by the scattering efforts of individuals...