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...CRIMSON the other day do not have the effect of making the public believe that that is the belief of every student in the university. . . . It is merely a publicity stunt that they feel is necessary when their glorified bulletin begins to sink into the throes of oblivion. A picture of the editorial room of such an institution at the aforementioned promise of oblivion is one in which all the responsible writers gather to see what criticism will have the most far-reaching effects. You see, I am really excusing the action of such a designer, because of his blindness...
Loughran's "end" was a percentage of the gate receipts in excess of Sharkey's guarantee; and less than 8,000 persons felt like paying to see a fight which could decide but one thing: which of two outworn heavyweights was due for immediate oblivion. Loughran, a quiet, well-liked fellow, had never been a powerful threat in the ring since he stepped up from the light-heavyweight class. Sharkey knocked him out four years ago. And now talkative, wealthy Sharkey, only three months ago the champion, had left his last claim to importance on the floor...
...more to the point, it is written by a Scot whose prize stock is a dour sense of satirical nuance. Mr. Macdonnell disguises himself as Donald Cameron, relic of the World War, unemployed Highlander, prospective author of a "book about England." If the skeleton is cumbrous, if humor finds oblivion in an hospitable close, there is enough flaunting of kills to satisfy the average reader. For some mysterious reason, Mr. Christopher Morley was asked to write an introduction...
...historic law that renegades first fling invectives at their opponents, then invite them to a fight, and then when the fight gets hot, retire to oblivion wearing a mantle of morality, is proved anew in the recent letter of my critic. People are so low and dull as not to perceive serious arguments. It is my critic who first characterized one of my ideas as "shallow" instead of giving "a reasoned" statement of his disagreement. I will not seek the hospitable columns of the CRIMSON any more. Yet I do not retire from the fight. I am in the fight...
Along with the decimation, in the face of legitimate beer, of the ranks of the campus bootlegger, another kind of bootlegger appears destined for gradual oblivion: the cramming school tutor. For years and years college and university authorities have striven with scant success (save in the case of Professor John L. Lowes, of Harvard, who allows students in his courses to bring all their text books into examinations) to circumvent the wily tutor. The Widow Nolan at Cambridge, Johnny Hun at Princeton, and Rosie at New Haven could seldom be outwitted. They perfected systems of question spotting that would drive...