Word: absurdity
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...towns. They might be very glad to have him pass Sunday with them occasionally, but what one of them would be willing to entertain him every Sunday for thirty-eight weeks? Yet this is the only way in which he may visit them. I cannot conceive of a more absurd regulation. What possible harm can there be in a man's spending his Sundays where he pleases, so long as his family is satisfied...
Many of the legislators of the country have been lately indulging in the most absurd theories of finance. Many have shown by their opinions, written and spoken, the most incredible ignorance of Political Economy. Some will lay this at the door of our republican institutions, and say that it is because in this country ignorant men can be elected to office. But the blame is not to be shifted so easily; the fault lies rather in the schools, which have neglected a most important branch of study. Many of those who show such utter incapacity to deal with questions...
...class. Have a brief simple history, comprising some few salient points, such as date of birth, name of father, and time connected with class; let each man write the secretary at least every two years, and from these letters let his "history" be collated by the secretary. It is absurd with such large classes as we have now to attempt individual lives of every member, and so many men see this folly and act on it, that the class-books now are very incomplete and unsatisfactory indeed; with less attempt more could be really done. With a small class...
...more ridiculous than our Revolutionary ancestors could have been sublime. And the impulse of every civilized person is to evince the fact of his civilization by making his mode of dress, his mode of thought, and his mode of life as different as possible from those of the absurd creatures by whom he finds himself surrounded...
...engraving about the foot-ball game in New Haven is accompanied by a base and altogether absurd insinuation; which is not witty...