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Reviewing the Hasty Pudding Show is sort of like reviewing Halley's Comet--it just comes around at regular intervals, and everybody sees it. The show's great strength is predictability--its motto might be semper eadem. And if you think predictability in theater sounds like a bad thing, well, you're in the minority--the lady ahead of me in the box office line bought 40 tickets. Opening night audience members paid $25 each for the extra privilege of seeing the Man of the Year ceremony and getting soaked in champagne...
...these men are Bohemians, but they are mild compared to him who sits sub iisdem trabibus and even super eadem trabe -I shall elect Latin -with me in U. 13. University! cheerful as the Catacombs! I always enter it with much the same feeling that I would a great mausoleum. The gloom which comes over me deepens as I take my seat, for I know that my dexter companion will give me no repose. My Plutonic melancholy, the heated room, the dull Livy, -all are conducive to slumber; the very instructor seems admirably chosen to that end: but my naps...
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