Word: absurdity
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Of course it would be absurd to find fault with students for rejoicing in the gratifying success of our nine. That the brass band and many students went to meet the nine on their arrival in Boston is commendable. If the whole college had turned out en masse to welcome their return to Cambridge and had spent an hour in the wildest expression of joy, such action would not have exceeded the demands of college patriotism. For whatever of this took place I have nothing but approval. But I consider it outrageous that through the whole evening...
...several points being lost by reckless coaching. In this one respect the playing of the nine should be much improved before we meet such opponents as Yale or Princeton, whose superiority in this respect is well known. The exhibition of umpiring was unparalleled, many of the decisions being so absurd as to excite the derision of the spectators...
...secondary schools. French and German ought to be begun early. Of the four languages, Latin, German, French and Greek, it would seem natural to take the easiest first, and yet it is believed that Latin is the hardest. The requirements for admission to American colleges today, including Harvard, are absurd, the boys having devoted, their attention chiefly to Roman and Grecian history in elementary text books. Probably a beginning at Cambridge will have to be made by allowing, for admission, an option of ancient and modern history, but if a choice could be made, the American and English history...
...result little work, if any, is done for a week or two by the students. Then, just as everything gets in running order again, a vacation comes to break in upon the work, and necessitates an entirely new start. Such a state of affairs at first sight seems absurd, and on further consideration, it seems even more ridiculous. Why, if vacations are given for recuperations are they not given when they are most needed, is the most natural query. Under the present arrangement, not only do the students in reality lose more time, the work in reality is made harder...
...where also the warrior caste and the priestly caste were alone held in honor, and where the really useful and working part of the community, though not nominally slaves, as in the pagan world, were practically not much better off than slaves, and not more seriously regarded. And how absurd it is, people end by saying, to inflict this education upon an industrious modern community, where very few indeed are persons of leisure, and the mass to be considered has not leisure, but is bound, for its own great good, and for the world's great good, to plain labor...