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Conspicuous now, throughout the U. S. and England, is a craze- questions and answers. This is being applied by the International Advertising Association with the purpose of finding out what various groups of people believe about religion. Last week, 1,000 hearty Dartmouth College undergraduates, who brave the Hanover (N. H.) winter with the aid of supplies from Canada, answered the following questionnaire in the following manner...
...that the "Ask Me Another" craze is sweeping the country, books of Questionaires are coming out almost daily, the newspapers are running questions, and the fad has even invaded the CRIMSON, it is of interest to know that the idea is by no means...
Perceptible now, throughout the land, is a craze: Questions, Questions. Let subscribers who wish to see potent questions, ably put, turn to p. 41 of THIS ISSUE. There they will find eight games that will well warrant their calling in their shrewdest friends, appointing an umpire and making an evening...
...public demand for a craze is becoming if not less insistent, at least temporarily more sane "Ask Me Another", according to those who know, is the latest of twentieth century parlor games. To be successful in this newest diversion one must be equipped with encyclopedic knowledge, a devilish curiosity, and a detailed information on subjects ranging from to quote examples from the Transcript Wagner to "four important breeds of dairy cattle." The dilettantes will accordingly, remain to blush unseen, for the last requirement of victory is a college education. Ignorance is no longer a la mode...
Newspaper headlines, ferryboat rides, a visit to her photographer's studio, the radio craze, furnish young Miss Crane with themes for her quaint, circumloquacious cadenzas. She puts pinions on tortoises and sapphires in the eyes of moles. She writes a "Ballad of Valley Forge," and a fine ballad it is, to the tune of "The Eagles They Fly High in Mobile, in Mobile" (or "Drink Her Down"). And sometimes she contemplates the purely inane, just for fun- The ritual and the microtome...