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...article shows a keen insight into one of the greatest weaknesses of the college system. The habits of study a boy forms in school determine very largely his habits of study in college and after. A test like the entrance examination eliminates many of the fit and not all of the unfit. The uniformity acquired by such a system makes it easier for the college, no doubt. But what the manager gains by a "system" the managed lose; and their loss is the loss of the community...
...Tilton '20, captain of the visiting team, was the individual star of the Crimson offensive. The persistence and accuracy of his attack was one of the greatest factors in the Crimson play. C. P. Smith '21, at left inside forward, also played a brilliant game, constantly menacing the Cornell goal line...
...definite prescription of work to be done, or lack of contact with the professors, or insufficient stimulation of originality, or the uninspiring personality of some section-men, many would-be students acquire late, or do not acquire at all, that absorption in their work which brings the greatest satisfaction. To this cause is due the remark common among graduates: "If I were going through again, I'd work harder," and the attitude common among undergraduates: "It isn't the things you learn in college, it's the friends you make, etc." Friends are a normal accompaniment of normal living...
...burlesque is perhaps the hardest to carry off. Nine times out of ten it falls flat simply because it is overdone. But the editors of the Lampoon knew when to stop, and therein lies their virtue. We understand that this number of the Lampoon is expected to have the greatest sale on record for any college magazine which will number at the end of its second edition twenty-five thousand copies. This speaks very well for the literary ability and business foresight of those in charge...
Lampy has once more put over a scoop, and it has skilfully frolicked with the qualities that makes "America's greatest magazine" great. But it is a scoop that certain Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles papers won't copy...