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...noted Boston banker who put up money to get the Lampoon out of hot water ten years ago, said last night, "A significant piece of American collegiana will pass from the scene with the demise of the Lampoon. But I'm not putting any money up for a lost cause. Sic transit gloria mundi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Warns That College Expansion Era Is Over | 1/24/1940 | See Source »

Patricia Ellis, for example, is not a wholly unattractive young woman. Her coiffure has been strangely mutilated, but her charms are not completely stifled thereby. If one's mood is unusually bland, he might possibly be amused by the antics of Frank McHugh. And the dance accompanying 'Collegiana," the main song, is weirder than truckin' and divertingly original. But the plot, adapted from a story by George Ade, is weaker than most in which Miss Ellis has appeared, and nobody in the show, least of all Miss Ellis, knows the rudiments of acting. Our parting advice is not to worry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARAMOUNT & FENWAY | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

...Dartmouth. Recovery not only from the depths of athletic slump, but better still from the depths of listlessness and cynicism which had begun to surround the college life. At the same time it is not meant to be something like the old and trite "Do or Die for Harvard" collegiana. There are hopes it will reach deeper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Out of the Depths" | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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