Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accuse the club of being falsely "high-brow." Not that we would for a moment go back to the old policy of barren repetition. Far from it. And yet it is not altogether unfitting that the chorus should occasionally unbend and give a few of the threadbare tunes still dear to the hearts of Harvard men everywhere. It does not smack unduly of small-town collegiate spirit to enjoy hearing the football songs and "Fair Harvard." The protests raised by the alumni in several western cities during the spring trip of the society show that the old songs...
...effective, any aid from us must not and can not be undertaken singly, nor with the machine gun all set up to shoot. We must invite, for the sake of peace which is costing so dear, all the other American nations. Give the A-B-C countries equal representation with our own on a board of investigation and recommendation; and give the others some representation. Say a board of two Americans, two members each from the A-B-C republics, and one from each of the others. Let their findings and recommendation guide us. And above all, let us secure...
Lampy, as she stands in her current number, has been despoiled of the wit that made her. Alumni humor, it seems, runs rather to reminiscence than "nut stuff," and right now it is "nut stuff" that has the vogue. But the fault, Dear Ibis, is not your staff, but in your graduates, who have grown beefy...
However, looking the present bravely in the face--if certain dear, but over-enthusiastic ladies, and certain learned but we fear misguided gentlemen, insist that Bacchus bow gracefully in exit to Fortuna...
...given subject. Of course, a disembodied soul bold enough to venture such advice could hardly hope for a hearing unless he haunted Mt. Auburn Street with uncommon persistence. Nevertheless if he were armed with a message in regard to National Coffee week, or Bolshevism, or some other topic dear to the Lampoon, he might gain audience. Surely his ghostly sayings would express the thought of many material but devoted Lampoon readers, inarticulate but eager for the highest of Lampoon standards, seeking the best and not the average of undergraduate humor, and pathetically ready to laugh and to praise...