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...Mechanics." To fill a whole number, then, involves some repetition, and, perhaps, at times some tedium for the reader. Of course an excursion into the advertising pages of the model offers the jaded Lampoon contributor one more field for jesting, but at last he must fall tamely back to invent a new contrivance or a new "helpful hint," which, however painstaking in its working up, suffers from close association with too many of its kind. Such are the penalties of "special numbers" except where the subject lends itself more easily to varied treatment. That the number, in spite...
...chance for a real barter here is too imposing to miss. Visions of imported tweeds and cheviots fascinate the youthful mind, and not until the "nominal payment" is made does bitter realization dawn. Verify, there is one born every minute. And as time goes on, human ingenuity will invent other bait for the fish; may we not shortly have the privilege of hailing the affable bootlegger with his spurious case of champagne, Canadian Club or Chianti...
...more appropriate for this endeavor at brainy baseball than Friday, the thirteenth? The game may indicate how compulsory athletics will develop baseball players from the scholarly students. Perhaps the brains of a modern Aristotle may develop a new, elusive spit ball curve; perhaps a Phi Beta Kappa athlete may invent a method for getting home run hits every time at bat Who knows...
...sense of responsibility of its board. One benefit has come from this for which it deserves much gratitude: the CRIMSON has almost entirely weeded out the Harvard correspondent who did not blush to send to his Boston or New York paper the most sensational "story" that he could invent, regardless of the injury it might do to the College. Now, thanks to the CRIMSON, the journalistic scavengers have to work from the outside or not at all; for they are refused access to the general news collected by the paper itself. To make its own utterances more and more authentic...
Instead of trying to invent something to replace the Statue exercises, why not let them go without a substitute? The time thus freed will be much more pleasantly spent in the Yard, and at the various Spreads, and everyone will be cleaner, and cooler, and less weary. SENIOR...