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...lecture was called "The Spirit of Touchstone," and in it, Mr. Noyes declared that "Hamlet was not mad, nor was he pretending to be mad; he was putting on the disposition of the Fool in order to strike at the insincerity and unreality of the world about him. Hamlet derived his disposition from his former friend, Yorrick, the court jester, which friendship is emphasized and illustrated in the play by Hamlet's sad reminiscences in the grave-digger's scene...
...With the sole exception of Hamlet, no other character in all of Shakspere's plays, who does not definitely take the part of a Fool, wears trappings, which were a part of the conventional garb of the Court Fool," declared Mr. Noyes. "This and numerous other instances throughout the play lead me to believe that Shakspere meant to typify in Harlet the 'Wise Fool' of the early English courts at his greatest point of development...
...enough? The punishment meted out in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" has always seemed to us eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge of science, but ignorance of Latin"; and they wonder even at the steadfastness of tradition...
...light of the regrettable occurrences of past April firsts in Memorial, it sometimes seems unfortunate that the spring vacation is not arranged to include that date instead of April nineteenth. If this were so the April Fool "roughhousers" could throw their food and rattle their crockery in their own homes, where any damage to property or tempers could be repaired within the family household. The annual reversion to anthropoid tactics was omitted last year; the CRIMSON suggests that it be again postponed and the festival reduced to at least the triennial class...
...away with it, and J. R. O. Perkins '14 will umpire for the same length of time. The goal umpires have not yet been selected from the list of 5000 applicants. Every thing considered, the game promises much, and tomorrow that old time favorite "the fool who rocked the boat" will have a first class sidekicker in the modern exponent of vacuum "the man who bet on the Lampoon...