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...contribution. From there, however, the issue trails into a succession of three attempts at movie satire. The attempts satirize only themselves. The other prose rises above this level but once. Fletcher's The Ghost is somewhat ill-conceived, but nonetheless well-executed, and his style precurses a Renaissance in 'Poon wit. Any such revival, however, is stifled by the inclusion of a piece titled As Maine Goes. Evidently the editors realized that it was poor and attempted to discourage readers with a first sentence beginning: "To the average Harvard undergraduate buried beneath his books at Widener...
...this afternoon, editors of both publications will gather on the steps of the 'Poon building to replace the Ibis upon the new copper and slate roof...
...then came the Princeton game, the last Princeton game, in fact, until 1932. The Tigers won, 9 to 0, but the game was lost in a welter of bad feeling over a Lampoon parody which proclaimed the death of the Princeton coach, a regular issue of the 'Poon, which showed two pigs over the caption "Let's all root for Princeton," charges of dirty playing, and Harvard's attempt to schedule Michigan. Behind it all lay Harvard's patronizing attitude toward "those Princeton play-boys" and Princeton's resentment of "those intellectual Harvard snobs...
...afternoon as the Crimson eight, stroked by Alan N. Riselbach'53, whipped out a five-length victory over the Poonie crew. Rowing an upstream course from the River St. to the Weeks bridges, the Crimson got off to a quick start and was never headed. At one point, the Poon's stern four raised the strake to a heady 24, but its bow four resolutely stuck to a 14. Much comment was elicited by the Poon's use of the unique "centipede" style of rowing...
Later, the Charles will churn to the beat of two Spanish galleons, each bearing 23 oars, when the CRIMSON crew meets the 'Poon in a 2:30 p.m. race over a two-cable length course...