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However that may be, the editors of the Advocate of all classes deserve praise for at least two reasons. Their current number is not in the least "high brow." It is entirely and frankly unpretentious, and frank unpretentiousness is not invariably a characteristic of undergraduate writing. Also it seldom offends by incorrectness of expression. To be sure, one is obliged to ask himself in reading the review of Mr. Masefield's "Good Friday and Other Poems," whether usage has sanctioned as English idiom the illogical phrase, "centre about"? One must also ask himself what the reviewer of Mr. Conrad...
What is the remedy for this condition? Thought! The conversation need not be "sissy." It need not be high-brow. It may abound in swear words and lines with a double meaning. Is there any reason why conversation cannot show intelligent effort of the mind? Is there any reason why meal times cannot be a period of intellectual stimulus...
Just now, however, the Advocate is to be congratulated chiefly because no hand of a graduate or advisory board or Faculty member is placed benignly upon its head, or at its throat; the undergraduate title remains without a high-brow cloud upon...
...Brow meets brow on Soldiers Field this morning at ten, when our own Phi Beets meet their Yale brethren in a clash for physical supremacy. The pristine pellet will be hurled hither and you with most unscholarly abandon, and the Sons of the Midnight Oil will undoubtedly perform monumental feats in their desperate efforts to bring home the Bacon. The local team is greatly strengthened by the arrival of C. P. Curtis, Jr., '14, who has come all the way from Europe to participate. E. A. Hetter '14, of Lampoon infamy, will act as the board of arbitration...
...humanist, note the clouded brow of the gentleman from New York and interpret it as an element New York and interpret it as an innate of Quakerism in your ancestry, smile and plagiarize the subtle wit of the baseball expert. And when your neighbor refuses to be interested in the popular movement, be certain that he must have a species of baseball aphasia...