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...song, entitled "Lamp in The West" with music by Horatio W. Parker and words by Ella Higginson, began in this vein...
Dempster bought a new aluminum dinghy. He bought soft-nosed bullets, which would blow a crocodile's head open. Finally, he outwitted the birds by hunting at night, a powerful hunter's lamp strapped to his head...
...this stone and steel monolith has leered down at the pastoral Yard with its fearsome glass face, frightening freshmen on the way to their breakfasts. One of these years was my freshman year, yea, and more than once I felt queasy as I passed President Conant's crazy little lamp-post...
Consider the lamp-post, gentlemen. Is it the brave, fearless last representative of a style of architecture that once was, standing in front of that horrid edifice, beaming its disrespect at it like a staunch puppydog eyeing a newfangled fire-hydrant? No, it is not. It is a ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian...
...That lamp-post is not "old." It was erected just three year ago. It is said, if you should be listening, that President Conant had it placed there so he could see something that looked more than two days old when he threw open his window in the morning for his three deep ones...