Word: absurdity
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...withdraw, will succeed in persuading his college to join Harvard, and it is possible that there may be one other college, Columbia; and, in the second place, no one can deny that a different spirit is coming over Yale in respect of her relations with Harvard. It is absurd to think that the experience of the last four years, and the annoyances borne by Harvard and Yale, have been completely thrown away; and that the colleges have not made some advance in their endeavors to check that boyish ardor and misplaced enthusiasm which have been the source of so many...
...regard to intercollegiate rowing decided according to the expense they involve, rather than the advantages or disadvantages they would cause; we must suffer the minority of the college world to drag the majority along by the nose; we must subscribe to measures which common-sense tells us are absurd; or we must leave the Association. The question is now, Which of these evils is the less? The Executive Committee, upon the advice of our delegates to the late convention, have decided to call a meeting of all the members of the H. U. B. C., and submit this question...
...perfect man, and must therefore have moral character, is true; but we needed no angel from heaven to tell us this. As entering into a discussion on Indifference or any trait of the mental development of the Harvard student, the subject of morality is irrelevant and absurd. From this to indifference itself...
...improvement on previous meetings, both in their management and in the time made by the contestants. Still the time was in some cases too slow, and the number of contestants too few. That out of more than seven hundred men only twenty-seven should enter for such contests is absurd, and shows a great lack of interest on the part of the students in general...
...call her a "high-bred dame" it is perfectly correct. The gentleman, however, need have no fear that the high-bred dames, Mrs. Morrissey included, would ever so far forget themselves as to be induced, by the entrance of his crew, to do such an utterly rash and absurd thing as to bet on them...