Word: absurdity
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...cannot be doubted however that many absurd notions prevail in this matter. The correspondent of the New York Times from Cambridge very well says: "Of all the errors which have got abroad in regard to our American colleges none is so false or so pernicious as the idea that the majority of the students give too much time to athletics. The truth is just the other way. The athletes in a class of 200 or over can generally be counted on one's fingers. The worst thing about college athletics is that they are shared in by so few that...
...pleasant to note how the more rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics...
...wearing of dress suits were confined to "proctors" or ushers at Yale, it might not be so objectionable, but when this practice is carried to such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt, and to make a stand against it. Absurd as it may seem, there is no doubt that the practice will presently be laid to the charge of Harvard "snobbishness," and, therefore, although the reform is open to the almost fatal objection of originating at Yale, it would seem necessary for Harvard, too, to adopt it at whatever sacrifice...
...pamphlets being read, and he also takes an unwarranted opportunity to cast contempt upon certain aminent advocates of protection. The arguments advanced in these documents are, naturally, in portions, severely partisan and at times inconsequent, having been originally expressed orally at a public meeting; but that they are wholly absurd and readily fallacious in statement is hardly to be believed, even by one who has read them carefully and is no ardent extremist on either side. As regards this matter, I have already learned of one convert to protection having been made by them, and I hope that others will...
...protectionist side which shows a spirit of fair discussion, it may be worth while for our instructors to point out to us through lectures what they believe to be errors in the protectionist arguments, but it would seem almost an insult to our intelligence to point out the absurd falacies in these pamphlets of the Society for the Protection of American Industries...