Word: jestered
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Again they gathered, and this time to the sound of spouting water and the whispers of a thrilled populace. The Blot chuckled sleepily from under the table where he had been asleep the night before. "Nos adorant!" he said, for he liked to air his knowledge. But the jester kicked him as he thought that even Lampy can not always finish what he begins; and the Ibis latched the door as he recalled the fires he had kindled and the irate firemen who had threatened vengeance. Suddenly rivulets from the lake above began to seep through cracks and crannies...
William E. Borah quit Idaho where he has been speech-making and handshaking, mounted a train for Washington. Before he left he telegraphed orders to "have Jester* brought back to the stables...
...play. The lion-tamer plays her wiles on all who come in range. The little bareback rider, used by her pseudo father for his own ends, loves and is loved by her riding-mate; she is sold instead to a roue baron. But "He", who has stood aside, unfathomable, jester like, commenting mildly cynical on all that passed, projects himself into the story and brings it to a different conclusion...
...read the Lampoon regularly have long grown accustomed to a dull Freshman Number at the beginning of the year. For apparently summer vacations do not lighten the touch of the Muses; and even the Bacchanalian revels of those editors who re-create abroad seem to weigh heavily upon a jester's pen. This being so, the quantity of amusing verses, apothgems and drawings in the current number augurs well for a good year of the magazine. Several pages, it is true, are obviously filled with stuffing--with the tatulent buffoonery which comes of labored writing. Almost invariably the editorials...
...this point, a word in your ear, notwithstanding howls from the Jester and other serious-minded folk. "No individual who does anything worth doing, and does it with all his might, need be lost in the crowd at Harvard; and, taken for all in all, Harvard is the best place I know for the individual youth." And the word comes from the undergraduates' best friend, Dean Briggs. Accomplish something, then, remembering that what you get will be measured in terms of what you give...