Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the material in the Lampoon is silly enough to be laughed at by a person drunk enough. It is fairly easy to be foolish, but it is the hardest thing in the world to be a clever Fool. Both wit and humor require intelligence, wit chiefly in the manner of presenting an idea, humor in the sympathetic study of life's absurdities. Satire, another form of art that makes its points by emphasis on the absurd, depends also for its force chiefly on the intelligence behind the ridicule. For satire is a form of criticism and as criticism...
...unsophisticated Freshman likes to take a drink and be suddenly transported into the realms of the rah-rah college man. It must be because he is young and foolish that he and many another student has marred the family pride in imbibing spirituous toasts after the victory over Eli. Of course it is fun to Scheck the pious elders, and to make the name Harvard obnoxious to the good people who chanced to be in the riotous vicinity. In thus abandoning themselves to drunken joy have the celebrants been fulfilling a traditional rite? If so, such tradition should be stopped...
...course everybody will be there. Where? At the Union. When? Tonight at 7.30. Football practice for Mr. Undergraduate begins with the Princeton mass meeting. We are not going to be so foolish as to urge all to be present; the building will not hold them...
...used to be the belieef of every Harvard undergraduate that Yale and Princeton were worthless as educational centers. The feeling of rivalry was as misguided as to become foolish. All this has for the most part gone. Today we have a keen rivalry but it is within the bounds of common sense...
...backed by the majority of the people, will bring these ideas to execution. Only in such a way can one work against the teachings of those who doubt in the wisdom of the present system. When one considers the short-sighted decisions of the various conferences, their pre-decided foolish actions, then can clearly be seen, where the Bolshevistic school finds its strength. One can not fight Bolshevism with treaties with Russia, forbidding pro-Bolshivik propaganda, but only by bettering the world's condition through a policy of cooperation...