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...communications from graduates regarding the Advocate, which we know that it has suppressed; or the answer to its recent attack on the Freshmen; or, beter, all three, to prove its statement that the communications which were not published "were either anonymous, or written in a childishly flippant and comic-supplement style." The undergraduate body should know fully whether or not such letters are "signed and more than persiflage." And the undergraduate body is entitled to know the truth about the Advocate affair, even after the long and almost successful effort of one editor of the CRIMSON to keep it dark...
...effect that a gag rule has been applied in the management of the communication department. Through out this year many letters have been received, most of which have been printed. Those which were not published were judged inadequate in that they were either anonymous, or written in a childishly flippant and comic-supplement style. Where a serious letter, keeping within the bounds of parliamentary decency was concerned, the CRIMSON has never refused to print the writer's statements, except in one case. Here an answer to this communication on the Freshman editorial was followed by an insulting note...
...purpose of the investigation of the War Department by the Senate Military Affairs Committee does not, seek to embarrass particular people or the take political revenge on anyone. Consequently we are surprised that so much flippant hinting and so many sly finger-pointings should have appeared in the American press. We are glad that the investigation will be held; it will be a means of prosecuting thin war with greater success. But rejoicing because political opponents are to be publicly scored is out of place at this time. In any crisis, national unity is preserved with difficulty. This task becomes...
There can be no question that the current Illustrated is the best number of the year. Notwithstanding the minor faults,--among which I would place the occasional faults in the composition mentioned above, the use of full-page cartoons, which seem rather flippant and cheap for a serious college pictorial, and the glaring double-page "ad" in the exact centre of the paper,--the issue is very creditable. It reflects University life in its clever photographs, and echoes the present universal stir for real preparedness in a way which should fully satisfy the most broad-minded among...
Thoroughly as this number of the Illustrated covers the gymnasium problem, the reviewer doubts if it will attract the flippant undergraduate, or, for that matter the flippant graduate. Its illustrations are mostly unflattering snap-shots of the ugliest Harvard buildings. Altogether, the Illustrated suffers from over-specialization in photographs and expository articles. Its editors need illustrators, story-writers, verse-makers, whose work may set off articles like those of Dr. Williams and Mr. Parsons; and they ought to realize that pictures of Compressibility Machines, Seismographs, and Boylston Hall cannot liven any magazine which aims to be more spirited than...