Word: absurdity
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...conversation with the chaperons than with the young ladies. Those who especially do honor to Class Day, and who, after the Seniors, take the most pleasure in it, are the "buds." Now who ever heard one of these complain of the length of a ball? No, no, it is absurd to suppose that such transparent sophistry should impose for a moment upon men who have learned their Barbara Celarent...
...writing to Vassar for young lady correspondents. The Freshman obtains a catalogue, finds the name of some Sophomore or sister Freshman, and "in flowery and verbless sentences" pleads with her to correspond with him. But the Vassar maiden always laughs at his poor spelling, ridicules his absurd mistakes, and "resents the impertinent demand on her time and attention." On the whole, the fun seems to be pretty equally divided, only we would suggest that the Yale and Harvard writers pay still less attention to rhetoric and dictionary, for, as it is, their communications are said to be less amusing than...
...Trinity Tablet has just discovered that Herr Joachim has been made Oxford Professor of Music. It is sufficiently absurd to mention this fact of musical and general interest in a column headed "At other Colleges," but to do this two months behind time is certainly adding insult to injury...
...unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether it praises sufficiently the institution which it represents. It is absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within a stone's toss of Boston Common, and having a magnificent view of the State House, enjoying the inestimable advantage of inhaling the pure, moral, and intellectual ether of the Athens...
...weights of the class seemed to interest the people of Orono, and his record of the scenes of hazing his class had been through thrilled the audience with enthusiasm. The prophecy must have been even more uninteresting to a stranger. But the valedictory reached the climax of the absurd. After informing us that this was the last time his class would ever meet together, he thanked the President and Superintendents for their leniency, and expressed his gratitude to the people of Orono for what they had done. He confessed that when he came to college he had no inclination...