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This paragraph is taken (and we beg to say taken accurately) from the pitiful crew story that seasoned the American's daily hodge-podge of journalistic fish stories yesterday. We may agree with yellow editors, to a very limited extent, that stories must be written in a style, that will appeal to the people, but we refuse to believe that the people are asking for downright lies. Such a direct and apparently intentional perversion of the statement that a Harvard victory over the Yale crew is not a fixture will warm every loyal Harvard man to several degrees beyond white...
...night happened for the fourth time this year. Screening the windows did no good, for the screen was kicked in. The last attempt broke one of the ground floor windows, and looked like thoroughly malicious destruction of property. We feel that we can no longer ignore legal protection, and beg that you will give this official notice. The Harvard Lampoon. E. L. BARRON, President...
...another. It is a false conception of liberty which looks upon it as a system of disconnected parts, free from co-operation. Freedom is the chance to relate oneself to the force and activity of the mass without destroying oneself, and does not exist in factories where the operatives beg reformers to let things be for fear that reforms will simply cause more suffering and hardship for them, rather than a comparatively slight sacrifice on the part of the employer...
...that their graduates do not make the same effort for high scholastic standing as the high school men, and that their loss in this field is more than offset by success in the so-called "outside activities" of College. After all, this answer does little more than beg the question. "Outside activities" may be of great value in an all-round education, but when they are offered as a substitute for the essential work of College, their value is obviously overestimated...
...what about the cheering? The writers of this morning's communication cry out against the lack of enthusiasm. It is true that the cheer leaders had to beg for better singing, but we have had only one mass meeting as yet, and good singing is not possible without much practice. The leaders did not have to beg for cheers. It seems to the CRIMSON that everyone was intensely interested in the game, and what cheers there were did Harvard credit. The trouble was, that the leaders did not call for cheers enough...