Word: absurdity
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...person or persons who are or seem to be responsible for the grievances claimed. Whenever it seems necessary to make a remonstrance against some crying abuse or an appeal to public opinion on any subject, the columns of a daily paper are perhaps the natural medium. But it is absurd to bring before the public petty complaints that can be settled by simpler and more natural means...
...battle of Bunker Hill an "absurd blunder" from the American point of view...
...short time ago we alluded to a letter in a recent number of London Field making sweeping and absurd charges against the amateur standing of American university athletes. We did not attempt any refutation of the charges because no intelligent American reader would have needed it to convince him of the utter ignorance of the Field's correspondent as to the way athletics are regulated in American Universities. We are very glad to find, however, that Mr. J. L. Coolidge '95 of the Mott Haven Team has written a letter to the Field, in reply to the member...
Such statements as these are too absurd to need refutation, but they show that in a time when American athletic ideals seem in danger of being lowered, the universities cannot throw the weight of their influence too strongly on the right side...
...were better for the life and morals of Boston that Harvard College were under the sea;" and again, "The effect of Harvard on the morals of Boston is about the same as that of a standing army of idle soldiers on a European garrison city." It may seem absurd to undertake the refutation of such purely calumnious assertions, yet it would surely be injurious to Harvard were they suffered to pass unnoticed. Were it not to guard against possible credence on the part of those as entirely ignorant of Harvard life as the writer in the Illustrated American, it would...