Word: mem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shows considerable literary feeling and very creditable literary attainment. The curious quality about it is that although the bulk of the text continues to be formally prose, almost the entire spirit of the writing is poetical. The prose spirit scarcely appears except in the reviews, the editorial "Now That Mem is a Memory", and in the extended satire "Logic, or The Evangelical Ventriloquist", notwithstanding the maturity and power of prose narratives by Mr. Smart, Mr. Edmonds, and Mr. Finney. In the editorial on the closing of Memorial Hall, the voice of the Advocate joins the crowd, muttering revolt against...
...light of fellowship is to light up Mem Hall for a last carouse. Next week the pall of unlighted vacancy will descend from its timbers, cover the wainscoting, and shut off the inquiring gaze of the gentlemen whose portraits have stared indifferently over the heads of several generations. For tonight, at least, decaying grandeur will be enlivened by a farewell feast. Rumor has it that Mem has splurged on turkey, the royal American bird, and invites all her remembering sons to dine with...
...Mem marks the decline of the tradition of gregarious leisureliness, it may not pass without creating a compensating store of new tradition. Such a structure, honored in the past and haloed in the present, cannot fail to found a legendary cycle. Ghosts may creak its boards, vague shapes may flit from rafter to rafter, the vast silence of its dimness will overawe the intruder. The spirit of good cheer is abandoning its Bacchic board, but the void may yet be filled by the angel of venerability and contemplation which hovers about the acquiescent majesty of deserted grandeur...
...principal objection to "Mem" being used for this purpose will be that its very atmosphere seems to dampen any show of enthusiasm for gayety; those who argue thus point to the sombre but dignified array of portraits on the walls as evidence. I distinctly recollect hearing a "long Harvard" given in Memorial Hall on one occasion that would put to shame any cheer heard in the Stadium of late years...
Install better lighting facilities and comfortable chairs, attend to the acoustic problem if necessary, pack "Mem" to the doors the night before the Yale game, give a "long Harvard", and watch the scowls of those worthies turn into smiles! Why not smash another tradition while the craze is on warm up old "Mem"? Philip W. Rice...