Word: absurdity
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...Rome, and was ill content with the privileges granted him by the Italian people. Some of his hot-headed adherents in other countries were even agitating the question of taking Rome by force and of bringing it again under papal authority. While the Italians feared little from such absurd projects still they recognized the advantages of an alliance which would at the same time free them from external and internal fears. Italy had to make sacrifices to enjoy these advantages. It was hard to enter into an alliance with a power which was cruelly tyrannizing over two Italian provinces, Tyrol...
...arrangement, and will not consider it. The games are played for the benefit of the colleges, not the New York public and Harvard men will insist upon having a match upon their college grounds. It Yale prefers New York to New Haven, she may choose the former. It is absurd to argue that New York is neutral ground. Geography and college representation both emphatically deny this. On the special student question, also, Harvard men are united. The special students are an integral part of the Harvard system, just as much as the Sheffield Scientific students are of Yale. No Harvard...
...would be only $95.00, while the minimum would fall below $76.00. At Memorial Hall the price of board has averaged within a few cents of $4.00 a week all through this year and last year. The figures given in the catalogue, $152 00, are therefore correct. It is absurd to say that the price of board "really runs much higher" than $4 25 a week...
...next misstatements to be noticed are that "the furniture estimate is absurd on the face of it," and that "the most glaring inconsistency in the official announcement as set forth in the above table lies in the item of expense for rooms." The explanation of the low figures lies in the fact the that most of the rooms in the college yard are occupied by two men-a fact which the World's correspondent has entirely neglected to mention. It is not necessary to quote price-lists of rooms and furniture to show that a reasonable number...
...statement by the officers of the Glee club in yesterday's CRIMSON that the charges with regard to the Arlington concert were "indefinite and absurd," and their expression of surprise at learning "the subsequent dissatisfaction of the audience as no such disapproval was made manifest while the concert was in progress" make it necessary to add a word on this subject...