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...annual CRIMSON-Lampoon hockey game for the classic grand challenge cup would be played between the periods of the Harvard-Yale contest Saturday evening was made last night following a long conference between the CRIMSON management and George V. Brown of the Boston Arena. Only the pusillanimity of the Jester's hordes can now prevent the clash with the University daily. Preparations are being made for an opening eight-minute period, to be followed, in case the comic cohorts come up for more, by a second session of similar duration...
...which Merwin and McCord are responsible, hardly belongs, as yet, in an American History Number, but the clever idea it embodies more than offsets its momentary inappropriateness. Altogether, the newest Lampoon maintains its usual standard of excellence while in no way distinguishing itself by any extraordinary offering at the jester's feet...
...that bulwark of New England tradition-the Manuscript--to the "Americanism" and osmopolitanism" of Hearst. But never before the current number has he set himself up as a crusader. Now he has dropped his wonted jollity and dedicated himself to that "stern god, Caustic Alkali." He has shed his Jester's trappings, has taken on a snake skin, and, with adder's blood, pursues the vermin. phrosyne sits alone at home...
This bunch of cowardly traitors, although happily few in number, constitute a real menace to the fair name of Harvard, and the sooner they are ridiculed into silence the better off the University will be. So here's to the Jester, and may he continue with every success the good work so admirably begun in defence of our country and College. CHARLES WARREN LIPPITT...
...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...