Word: absurdity
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...namesake at Yale. The articles are all short, and very amusing. We are very sorry, however, to find the young ladies of Abbott Academy admiring the "Story of Avis," for, although Gail Hamilton's severe attack prejudiced us in its favor, we consider it one of the most absurd of recent novels, which is saying a good deal...
...wish to go to England under no false pretences. We do not claim to be the champion four of American colleges. No such thing exists, and the attempts of our contemporaries to manufacture the title are as absurd as their protest against our supposed assumption of it." - Acta Columbiana...
...yourself, when you should be gaining a practical knowledge of men and the world, and working with enthusiasm upon your chosen profession, - this time you spend in a life every law of which is unpractical, in studies which are of doubtful use, and in recreations which are absurd, all for an object which is simply that humbug called general culture...
...struck by this absurd speech, and sat down. Was he convinced, or did a slight uriosity...
...this fact with the necessity of Latin prayers? The English universities have kept a custom which originated in their Roman Catholic days, and are excusable for so doing; an American college, in adopting this custom without the least reason, would merely lay itself open to ridicule for its absurd anglomania. The affectation of talking about the "grandeur and solemnity" of the Latin service is not worthy of the Tablet's good sense...