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With the announcement of liberal price cuts by the majority of automobile manufacturers, there arises the rather pertinent question as to just how much truth there is in the generosity which they all modestly flaunt before the dear public. Some manufacturers frankly admit that they are selling below cost at the new prices; others are more modest...
...particular, the CRIMSON should give some non-financial reason for continuing its obnoxious liquor advertising. To be sure, the advertisements this year have taken a less disgusting shape than formerly; the brewers have become modest, and no longer flaunt their waers in our faces with an are of rakish conviviality; but why should the CRIMSON hesitate to do what most reputable newspapers and magazines have long since done and expel such advertising altogether? College papers are traditionally idealistic. Some of them have been the pioneer spokemen in movements for civic betterment. Shall the CRIMSON chcose to stand aloof from this...
...meddler. Why should he question the actions of the nine and its captain? Do not they know better than he? Let him see to it that he meddles no more in matters he does not understand. It has seemed to some, perhaps, like brazen effrontery for the nine to flaunt their striped blazers in the faces of those who paid for them, and to calmly spend their time as best suits themselves, with no apparent regard to the duty they owe their class. But let those malcontents fret no longer, but console themselves with the thought that the nine...
...keep watch and guard over the relic, iminure it within bank vaults, and take the utmost precaution lest it be wrested away from them. It is customary for each class to append a lemon to the 'Squeezer,' and also to add their color to the bunch of ribbons which flaunt themselves at the further extremity. Previous to its appearance on class day, the 'Squeezer' is exhibited to the class for which it is intended, and the exhibition is one in which the old relic is made to perform a part, one of the lemons flavoring the punch drank upon...
...spite this time. Hear what he says: "The Orient has seven editors, but we never could, and probably never will, be able to locate their labors. The paper has no editorials. "The nine boyish editors of the Dartmouth are in paroxysms of grief..... Why our editors do not flaunt their patronymics to the breeze is none of the Dartmouth's business." Harvard comes in for the following: "This [i. e. the restriction of books at the Library] is too bad; pious Harvard students, it will be seen, are prohibited a taste of the forbidden fruit. We notice that Carl still...