Word: juvenalia
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Those shelves are now crowded with volumes ostensibly aimed at the future but in fact trained on another target: the wallets of large people with small children in mind. This year, as before, only a handful of juvenalia is worth a second look. Yet that look can last a lifetime...
AFTER years of printing nothing or nothing but the juvenalia of great poets and the margenalia second-water ones, the Advocate has this year turned its attention back to the local community and our generation. So even if one refused to acknowledge any other virtue in the present issue, its editors would still have to be praised for continuing this happy policy of relying on undergraduate contributors. Nor, in fact, is the issue without other merits, notably a poem by Rachel Hadas and a short story by Alice E. Dorcas (the pseudonym for a sophomore in Lowell House...
...Yale are played in the Stadium? What eye has not rapidly scanned the list of Important Dates in the college year, starting with that of registration and blithely swooping over the months to the far distant Commencement? It is the first real bond felt by the Freshman, is this juvenalia, for it is much more personal and more intimate than the frigidity of the application blanks and schedules which trickle from University Hall all during the summer...
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