Word: absurdity
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Such an article as appeared in the editorial column of the CRIMSON last Saturday demands recognition only because the Glee club is a university organization. The management of the Glee club proposes to take up these indefinite and absurd charges in order...
...communication published in another column, the management of the Glee club refer to our editorial article of March 1 as containing "indefinite and absurd charges." We wish to inform these gentlemen that our criticism was based upon complaints from members of the club itself. We can name some of the members "who are so disgusted with the management of the club that they are ready to resign." We have yet to find any one who considers the record of the club through the autumn and winter as good as its record in recent years. Even the management of the club...
...humor. This last characteristic is the most noteworthy of the good qualities of the book which is really a combination of satire and wit. English nobility and royalty are lashed unsparingly by Mr. Clemen's strokes of sarcasm, and the reasonable fear is that he has carried his absurd exaggeration too far for any beneficial effect to result from...
...author's style in this work, as in his others, is always bright and refreshing, but here also are occasional lapses into a lower order of wit than is worthy of the writer. As a book, however, full of situations and incidents perfectly absurd and yet highly amusing nothing could be more successful...
...faculty, headed by a personage of great influence, the aim of which is ultimately to confine Harvard athletics within the limits of Harvard college." The editorial then accuses this faction of working secretly against intercollegiate athletics and of making the athletic committee a cats-paw. This accusation is almost absurd. There are undoubtedly many members of the faculty and overseers who do favor the abolition of intercollegiate games but they have never concealed their hostility. A majority of the faculty, and of the students also, we believe, are in favor of restriction and of the abolition of the abuses...