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...fifty years "Lampie" has done its best to sate the appetites of lovers of Punchian wit. And now that the gods of finance have doomed it to oblivion, the CRIMSON will not be alone in regretting the passage of a bird so rare as the famed Ibis of Mt. Auburn Street. For the patriarchal purveyors of discretion whose efforts at enforcement have recently disturbed these young Benchleys in their better moments will feel the loss even more keenly than Lampie's more firmly established contemporaries. And many a lonely subscriber whose diet for years has consisted of the Transcript...
...Johns Hopkins would admit that, for he himself continues as a professor of English literature. Yet idiocy--this kind of idiocy is the leaven in the lump of mediocrity and cultural decadence, so often the apparent heritage of the nation. Without it Ellis Island would be the gateway to oblivion instead of the open sesame to a fairly interesting modern nation. With it America can still believe that such outbursts of insanity as the Cathcart case may not plunge her into complete international disfavor...
...seems strange that archaeologists, so careful of forgotten dwellings, should be so careless of living customs. Unless vigorous measures are taken, the last theme of adventure stories will disappear, for picturesque superstition threatens to follow romantic conflict in to oblivion. When Sabatini's buccaneering mine is exhausted, romancers of the old school will have nothing to write about...
...Depew's three living classmates made no public plaint or protest. They may have pondered wistfully the oblivion which time brings to all men. They may have reflected sadly, "And some day even Chauncey will have been forgotten." They may have wondered which of them would outlive the others, perhaps to be chaired around Yale Field mid cheers and bunting as Oldest Living Graduate. At all events, in their three corners of the country, Mr. Depew's three living classmates held their aged peace. They were: Dr. Virgil M. Dow, retired medico of New Haven, Conn.; James L. Rackleff, lawyer...
Thus in the undergraduate mind the Bible has passed to an unfortunate oblivion along with Latin grammars and first primers. In a great many cases it is saved from such a fate by the timely, if unpleasant, arrival of divisional requirements. True enough the student is still forced to pore over the carefully worded pages of the Bible, but this time he is able to give it a fair hearing. College, if it teaches anything, teaches a young man to judge of things for himself. If then he finds gold in these pages, where all seemed dross before...