Word: joviane
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Cambridge, March 15--Rumor has it that those worshippers of the Muses who have reached their third year at Harvard will do homage tonight at the shrine of Terpsichorean. The affair will be one of the most exclusive of the year for the younger set. The Jovian officials whose habitat is the classic shades of University Hall have maintained a sphinx-like silence...
...lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes of mortals...
...when the magician yanks the rabbit from the hat? Are those people "hard" who sometimes burst out laughing even when they are all alone, for no reason that they could tell you except that "it seems so good just to be alive on a day like this?" What about "Jovian laughter"? Was, or is, that a phenomenon of discontent...
Know then, the Lampoon's birth is of a quality that far exceeds mere human bounds. Minerva like, it sprang fullarmed from the inspired heads of nine most Jovian wits, nine muses of the day. No CRIMSON midwife fostered it, and it has thrived on jests more recent than the daily news you render us in your dull, homely columns. Let this letter stand as a testimonial to your obloquy...