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This University appears to be still exempt. For a time the "Gadfly" gave promise of action: but it much-heralded appearance was more suggestive of a butterfly or moth. Yet there is no telling what secret ammunition may have been brought in; already there are rumors that a more penetrating criticism, from the same source, is about to be let loose. The game of setting up little tin gods and clay-footed idols to knock over is not particularly dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers...
...more allusion to the illusion, and we have done. As the moth must have its yellow flame, so must Harvard have its yellow peril; yet when the tempting colors have been smudged by rains, and the screaming message out-screamed by the allurements of the Tiddledewinks team, then will we listen one again, indulgently smiling, to echoes of hollow laughter along Mount Auburn street, reverberated from the recesses of an empty stein...
...lily and pale as a sleeping moth...
...last moth a new spirit has come over our nation. Before, we had given our wealth and made personal sacrifices. Today, in the ever-increasing casualty lists of men failing in France, we have begun to give our lives. Pouring forth our dollars was but the washing away of the veneer. Each life now lost is a cut into the flesh. We have begun our real sorrows. We are feeling the terror of war. As the struggle becomes harder and our enemies seem only to gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will...
...sooth, it is the beginning of the end. The cap and gown garb is a sort of cocoon from which the Senior will emerge as a very humble moth in June. But the cocoon days are happy ones, and rightly. The soberness of the robe signifies no corresponding gloom in the class; Nineteen-fourteen has not assumed black to mark its declining days. On the contrary, Nineteen-fourteen is just beginning to live. What with Junkets and picnics, and bright days and gay nights, cap and gown time will pass quickly and merrily. So, paraphrasing the advice given...