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...material gathered to illustrate this thesis is of no mean quality. On the title page the editors confess their mission. The illustrations and text bear out the promise. One who has passed through the experience of an examination in the New Lecture Hall cannot fail to get a quiver or two out of the cartoon The Retreat from Moscow. To most readers of the Lampoon this will be the appeal to strike him most strongly. A modest Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate...
Said robust Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile workers of America, editor of The Textile Worker: "We have read so much recently, like millions of our countrymen, about this thing which is called prosperity, but I am willing to confess that outside of bankers, speculators, bootleggers and prize fighters, the thing to me is a myth, if not worse...
Despite all this, however, there is no denying that there are many who, reason or no reason, do not like the idea of a larger Stadium. Even those who must confess that the claims of the Athletic Association are just, somehow wish that it might be otherwise. It is to this class that the CRIMSON belongs. Figures, charts, statistics, the practical is undoubtedly on the side of those desiring an enlarged Stadium. Sentiment, tradition, perhaps even a sort of foolish idealism seems no less certainly on the side of those opposing the proposed change...
...What can I tell you that is not 'an old story', as I call it? There is little that I can add to my series of articles on 'The College Undergraduate as I Know Him' which you must have followed in 'I Confess...
...writer must confess to a certain prejudice in favor of this issue of the Lampoon due to the fact that careful perusal of its pages has failed to discover any reference to indifferent horsemanship. This violent departure from the iron tradition of American humor speaks volumes for the originality of the paper...