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...hick high school spirit has at last appeared at Harvard. Encouraged by the recent activities of Eli freshmen a group of would-be collegiate high school youths gathered on Saturday night and decided to institute Pajama Night at Harvard. We may thank God that at least the attempt was a failure. A few cries of "Let's go fellows", a few regular Harvard cheers for pajamas, and a few college songs were sung, and pajama night failed. Though Yale freshmen are criticised for their youthful absurdities, our Harvard hicks are not even manly enough to break a fence...
This incident, I think, illustrates a sad truth, that until these Freshman hoodlums have a little of their rustic training beaten out of them, Harvard indifference cannot be attained. Would it not be possible for such bumpkins as the Freshman Pajama Night promoters to go to some college where they can obtain more backing for their boobishness than they can here. Mark Howe...
...brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from end to end. And in America universal mourning will reign, for one-fourth of the national stock of jokes will have been wiped out overnight. More than a ready use of "honorables" and ability to discover, ad infinitum, names riming with "pajama" will be required of our humorists. All this and more will ensue, for the Japanese will soon speak better English than American Nordics, even from Boston...
...gentleman in Newark tells his "early birds" that it is time for their morning exercises. He cracks a small joke or two "to liven things up" and, to be even more amusing, uses the studio props-"crickets"' and other noise-making contraptions - to represent creaking joints and splitting pajama legs. The command is given, a piano strikes up, the conversational gentleman barks out the count, mixing in banter and joviality...
College girls, pajama girls, natives, pirates and bandits...