Word: absurdity
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...accommodate those who did not get a chance to speak at the recent competitive debate for membership, there will be another competition on November 9. This is open to all members of the University except freshmen. The subject will be "Resolved, That universal male suffrage is absurd in theory and has proved ineffectual in practice." F. C. Thwaits 2L., will speak on the affirmative and W. E. Hutton '95 on the negative. All members of the University are invited to be present and to speak...
...decidedly annoying. To ask students to present their work in a certain specified form is well enough, but to insist upon it, even to ask all the students of a course to buy a pamphlet of instructions as to how to behave in a course is little short of absurd. In History 13, for example, it is carried so far that each student is required to pay a small fee to meet the expense of the elaborate printing necessary for the course. Now the amount is small, but the principle seems wholly wrong, for certainly the ideal way of managing...
...meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club last night, it was decided to hold another competitive debate Friday, November 9. The subject will be "Resolved, That universal male suffrage is absurd in theory and has proven a failure in practice." The principal disputants will be F. C. Thwaits L. S. and W. E. Hutton...
...debating societies hold their first meeting tonight; and we hope that they may be good meetings. These societies are cultivating, and with no mean speed, an increasing interest in debating. The position which this branch of education formerly held in the University was nothing short of absurd. In a country where good public speakers are a government necessity, and where the number of such speakers is at present distressingly small, it seems beyond comprehension that young men in a position to make themselves good speakers should wholly let slip the opportunity...
...must first establish their need for money; then scholarships are assigned to them according to rank. That is to say, the question of need is made the basis for forming a general group, and the the group is subdivided minutely on the question of future usefulness. This is manifestly absurd. Future usefulness, since it is so largely an unknown quantity, may be taken as a basis for a general group, but nothing more. Needs, on the other hand, can be determined with considerable accuracy, and offer a far more practicable basis for subdivision. As matters stand, the rational order...