Word: absurdity
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...teams, while the rest of the students sat on sofas, smoking cigarettes and betting on the results. Such a statement revealed, of course, an almost total ignorance of the athletic life of Harvard, and the effeminate picture presented of the average college man of today was too absurd to be anything but amusing...
...case. The Church now denies the concessions it made on being allowed to have freedom of worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with Protestants. Whether the Catholic Church will ever abandon its absurd claims to infallibility, it will always be the duty of its members to do their duty before...
...reflects discredit upon the three upper classes that their football teams should receive such wretched support as has been given to them this year. That out of a class of four hundred men there should be any difficulty in getting at least first and second elevens, seems absurd; yet this is the case, and has in past years been the case, until by dint of hard personal persuasion barely enough men have finally been got together to make a fair showing in the class championship games...
...mass meetings suggested by the joint committee from Exeter and Andover should surely result in the renewal of athletic contests between the two schools. It is absurd that such leading preparatory schools in the country should any longer be kept at variance merely for lack of general will to come to some agreement. In any league which may be now formed, it should not prove difficult to guard against a repetition of the conditions which led to the present separation. Out of experience, the schools should have learned sufficient wisdom to direct with success their mutual efforts toward maintaining friendly...
...less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high is of course absurd, but it is extremely disagreeable, and no man in his senses would force himself to listen to it. It would doubtless be unbecoming in us to urge any such lack of self-consideration, but surely it is not going too far to call attention to one of the disguises...