Word: absurdity
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...that the Columbia race has been rowed, and Harvard has so completely disposed of the absurd story of her fear of last year, we hope that measures will be taken toward giving up the Columbia race. We can afford to withdraw after such a victory, and devote ourselves entirely to Yale, as Yale devotes her energies entirely to defeating Harvard. The disadvantages of the race with Columbia are too many and too well known to require description. We think we voice the sentiment of the college in asking that the race in the future be given up. Columbia is satisfied...
...this accusation is indignantly denied by the rector of the university. But little weight, however, can be attached to such a denial in the face of the contrary assertion by the Lectureship. Besides, it is a notorious fact that college students everywhere are hopelessly immoral, and it is absurd to think that students at the University of Leyden form an exception to this rule...
...play off the championship. The writer seems to have forgotten that, in that case, Harvard would have won three games and one undecided, and that Princeton would have won three and lost one to the very team with which she would dispute the championship. It would evidently be absurd for an unbeaten college to share the championship with her defeated rival. It would also be out of accordance with the customary foot-ball precedents, by one of which Princeton obtained second place over Harvard in the fall of '81, although each team had won but one game. We think that...
...saving of time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course is very apt to regard with horror any toleration of the use of the ubiquitous "trot," and to set down such a liberty as a moral sin. What seems the most absurd manifestation of this sort of prejudice is the custom in vogue among the professors of Lehigh University, where the text books in use are immediately changed as soon as a "pony" is found. A standard which holds up the antique methods of classical training as the best is, perhaps, driven to this...
...heretofore erroneously supposed that a college meeting like this is held primarily for the benefit of the collegians themselves rather than for the exclusive satisfaction of the patrons of the professional field, and that a college meeting is a peculiarly appropriate occasion for the display of college enthusiasm. How absurd such a notion is it is not necessary to explain...