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...student of Princeton University, add some new light to the recent examinations in a course labeled "An introduction to History and Economics," which has caused such a stir on the campus and spelt doom for so many of the very young...
Obviously such a poll will be of no value if those voting do not express an honest opinion; as this is not an income tax blank, it costs no more to be sincere. Half-hearted support in this, as in class elections, will doom the experiment to failure...
With the poetry there is always the delicious humor. The logic of the Queen, the Princess's self-sufficient, practical step-mother, is not more unanswerable than Gilbertian when she suggests the way for the girl to escape the doom foretold by the stars--that she is to be ate and devoured by a scaly Green Dragon from the North. Marriage, argues the Queen, is the way of escape. Dragons from time immemorial have eaten King's daughters but not Kings' wives. "In all the inventions made by poets did any of you ever hear of a Dragon swallowing...
...dramatic career of Lord Dansany covers a period of eight years, in which he has produced among other plays "The Gods of the Mountain," "A Night in an Inn," "King Argimines," and "The Golden Doom...
...mercenary hordes of Lampy, driven to doom by their officers, were mowed down by the CRIMSON crew and at the end of the contest the score board read: CRIMSON 5, Lampoon 4. All of the CRIMSON runs were earned; the Lampoon quota was merely lent to them for the afternoon by its generous opponents. From the moment when the Lampoon twirler pitched over the backstop for the first strike of the afternoon, the outcome was never in doubt. The CRIMSON infield was absolutely tight, and Lampy's punch was of no avail. The barrage of hits from CRIMSON bats gave...