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...evident that the winter must have passed his life in the seclusion of his own conceit, if he thinks that such a sentiment has a glimmer of truth in it. The people with whom such flippant and inane flashes of wit have any weight at all, are those who have never heard of Harvard, or have received their knowledge of her through just such unreliable sources as the writer of the passage quoted above. A man who knows Harvard as she is would never sacrifice his reputation for intelligence and fairmindedness so far as to make himself responsible for such...
...Pioneer Mining in California," Mr. E. G. Waite protests against the flippant style and eccentric rhetoric of those writers who have made the early California miner a terror, or "who, seizing upon a sporadic case of extreme oddity, some drunken, brawling wretch, have given a caricature to the world as the typical miner." Mr. Waite draws a clean-cut picture of the early mining years and the early miner which is delightfully interesting...
DEAR EDITORS CRIMSON. - One of the items in your issue of yesterday seems to refer to my former communication to you. Excuse me if I say that the comments in that item are irrelevant; I might even put a harsher word and call them flippant. While suggesting that upperclassmen invite freshmen to their rooms, I made no mention of lunch or any other kind of entertainment, as I know well that most of us demand no more than that we should be allowed to mingle on terms of equality with the older fellows. I am sure that we freshmen...
Boston Theatre. - "Streets of New York." Although at times Mr. Boniface seems perhaps a little too flippant in manner in face of his many accidents throughout the action of the play, his acting is on the whole a good piece of work; especially may be noted his sudden change, from laughing carelessness to that of frightened horror at the death of the old sea captain in the prologue. There is a lapse of twenty years between the prologue and first act, and it seems strange that all the other characters but Tom Badger, Mr. Boniface, should grow old; but this...
...another subject by making against the managers of our crew the serious charge that they have acted discourteously or unfairly in not replying promptly to Yale's challenge. Not only are the charges ungentlemanly and wholly without foundation, but they are made in the News' most rabid and flippant style...