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...Lampoon, he might gain audience. Surely his ghostly sayings would express the thought of many material but devoted Lampoon readers, inarticulate but eager for the highest of Lampoon standards, seeking the best and not the average of undergraduate humor, and pathetically ready to laugh and to praise on the barest excuse. KENNETH B. MURDOCK...
...into cash. Besides, if one will save the interest one will have more dollars to spend later on than now. This, together with the fact that each dollar will purchase more then than now, makes it to the individual's advantage to postpone the purchase of all but the barest necessaries...
...good football man plays well at the game of life. There are few shirkers among the line and backfield. There are no cowards. So very many have gone that only the barest semblance of a team may be organized. That speaks well for the value of football as a training...
That which is done may not be undone, even by the deepest suffering of the doer. We have that promise which says: "Vergeance is mine; I will repay." But we, for all we may do, cannot repay, not even to the barest fraction. That is the tragedy of justice...
...regards class feeling in the early part of the course, it is proper and necessary to speak of hazing; and a very few words will suffice. The wild reports that have been circulated through the newspaper world within a few years have had only the barest foundation in fact. The unparalleled atrocities and so on have consisted in a quiet call upon some unwary freshman, a reading of some Greek or Latin author to the company by their unwilling host. probably from a recumbent position upon the table, and, finally, an invitation given him to retire to his couch...