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...year-olds. Wrote Mother: "Every weekend [my daughter] goes out with a Harvard boy 18 years old, and I say draft him and his kind, the whole lot of them, the quicker the better. Mothers . . . should see him simpering on her doorstep, his fuzzy face shining and insipid, his white shoes dirty and scuffed. They should hear his simple-minded conversation . . . Put him in uniform, give him the experience which will make...
Like come of its predecessors, the new Lampoon presents well-executed art work, a good cartoon, and occasional clever writing. Like more of them, this "Boston Issue" contains much that is flat and insipid. Parody of both literature and situation has become a well-developed craft with the 'Poon staff; original humor...
Mothers of 18-year old boys may wonder why I say this. They should see my daughter's "suitor." They should see him simpering on her doorstep, his fuzzy face shining and insipid, his white shoes dirty and scuffed. They should hear his simple-minded conversation. Compare him with the veterans, compare him with the married men, compare him with the reservists who will have to go if he is deferred. I speak for other women, I am sure, in saying take this boy, put him in uniform, give him the experience which will make...
...worked the letter into what his office calls a "college cutie," leading it "Awaken, ye men of Harvard ... a 'Radcliffe Girl's Mother' would like to see you drafted." His version of the letter came close to the original, thought it was somewhat shorter and substituted "inspired" for "insipid." The story attributed the letter to the CRIMSON, saying it was "purportedly from the mother of a Radcliffe girl...
Mothers of 18 year old boys may wonder why I say this. They should see my daughter's "suitor.' They should see him simpering on her doorstep, his fuzzy face shining and insipid, his white shoes dirty and scuffed. They should hear his simple-minded conversation. Compare him with the veterans, compare him with the married men, compare him with the reservists who will have to go if he is deferred. I speak for other women, I am sure, in saying take this boy, put him in uniform, give him the experience which will make...