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...African Dodger, an agile Ethiopian, father of the first Memorial Hall waiter ever brought into captivity. All Seniors with any pitching ability have been practicing for weeks in the Cage, the scene of the coming orgy, in order to become accustomed to the environment in which they will assail the elusive dodger. There will be several interesting exhibitions. A Jinx, and a Magufflin, one of those strange animals without any face, are being held under the personal guard of the Senior officers, who are relieving one another in four-hour watches. These queer beasts will be shown in the Cage...
...less frustrated by the undergraduate's secret hostility if it would more frankly recognize what a challenge its won attitudes are to our homely American ways of thinking and feeling. Since the college has not felt this dramatic contract or at least has not felt a holy mission to assail our American mushiness of thought through the undergraduate, it has rather let the latter run away with the college...
...hard for me to adapt myself comfortably to the fact that the Advocate is no longer an organ of College opinion. Can it be that the internal economy of the University is so perfected that there are no continuing evils to assail, no grievances so lasting as to call for the use of heavier journalistic ordnance than the daily musketry of the CRIMSON? I must look, it is clear, at the Advocate not as a semi-monthly spokesman of College views, but as a carrier of light waves--of verse, stories, and the occasional essay. If the old Advocate...
...life, for which this influence is wanted. In a college man this need is great, for the college man is a tempted man. He is placed in temptation of body and intellect. Impurity, intemperance, hypocrisy, intellectual pride, unbelief, these are only a few among the many that assail him. The battle which every man must wage against these temptations is a hard one, but it is only by this battle and the victory, that we may come in touch with the Living God. One of the most common of these temptations is impurity, in mind, body or imagination...
...among us has told on the side of good order, and the loss occasioned by his absence must be great. His work in the pulpit and among the students has always been of an eminently practical nature. He has had always in mind the great temptation which must necessarily assail men during their college career, and his words have been aimed to strengthen men against these temptations. His earnestness has never failed to secure the closest attention of those who have been fortunate enough to hear...