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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coherence suffer, and he fails to attain the standard of the Illustrated, as set forth by Mr. Hamlin in the "Need of Attachment," "the ability to think clearly, to write very decently, and to work efficiently enough not to need to hustle." It is good (and somehow amusing) to know that "atheists, agnostics, or others taking philosophy courses are always welcomed" at "the Association meetings (like the mid-week meetings of the St. Paul's Society)"; but he is indeed hardened who does not experience a genuine shock when he finds Episcopalians and members of "smaller organizations, like the Catholic...
...course, it is possible that those members of the University who have not yet taken English A, may not know the meaning of the word Lampoon, and we advise such individuals to consult some standard dictionary. (A dictionary is a book that tells you things about words). Anyhow, it is still the object of the editors of the Harvard Lampoon to "try with trenchant pencil and sarcastic pen to hit off the foibles of our 'little world', and to open a field where the last jest at the club table, and the latest undergraduate freak may find a fitting place...
...baseball team which meets Yale in the first game of the series at New Haven today and to the crews who are to row against Yale this week, the CRIMSON wishes the best of luck. In every athletic event between Harvard and Yale men we know there will be given a splendid exhibition of fighting powers. We have confidence in the baseball team and in the crews and feel that this confidence is abundantly justified...
...taking the examinations for entrance, some of them men from the preparatory schools nearby and others from distant sections of the country. To both groups the stay in Cambridge will be a very significant event; and it will be well to make their visit a pleasant one. Men who know sub-freshmen should "show them the ropes" to some extent and not assume the ridiculously childish air of undergraduate psuedo-dignity which prejudices the stranger. It may help the sub-freshman to find himself sooner when he comes in, if he can catch a glimpse now of what...
...Buffalo, however, is the first of these clubs that has come to our notice as advertising its desire to help graduates in the social and business worlds. Letters have been sent to the presidents of our universities and colleges requesting from them the names of young graduates whom they know to be about to go to Buffalo from their institutions. Nothing could be more agreeable to the young graduate than to be at once admitted to the friendship of the older graduates of all colleges; and nothing can do more to establish college graduates in a proper place...