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...campaign among the graduates according to classes had been a success, although it had fallen short of the $2,800,000 mark which had been set. This campaign, which lasted only four weeks, resulted in adding 2000 formerly non-subscribing alumni to the Endowment Fund roster and in the receipt of an additional million dollars. This was achieved in the face of adverse financial conditions both at home and abroad, and without the incentive of the initial effort of last year...
...acknowledging the receipt of your recent letter, I have the pleasure of sending to you a copy of the letter which I sent today to Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell, the President of Harvard University...
...Coop. Branch, the Coop., and Notman's. Originally, scheduled to appear on June 1 it has been found possible to place this limited number of copies on sale four days in advance of the date planned. Each day henceforth additional volumes will be placed on sale immediately on receipt from the bindery...
There remains the difficulty of determining the manner of proof to be required of those who claimed a reduction. In these days of the ubiquitous income tax receipt, it is not hard to discover the average man's financial resources. But even in default of this, rebates might be made proportional to other college expenses. A combination of the two methods would certainly serve to prevent well-to-do boys "with the commercial instinct strong within them," as the "Quadwrangler" puts it, from trying to beat the college down...
...undiluted nonsense properly tinctured with spiritualistic jargon. Pre-eminence in the Lampoon's true field-good humored mockery of the incidents and figures in our academic daily round-is revealed in drawings and verse which, alas, leave much space for work that is less ably contrived. The old receipt has given the old result, and once again the taste that persists is that of the average and not of the distinguished. Perhaps, like the Magazine, the Lampoon craves the title of "representative." Perhaps the faint suggestion of dullness is but the result of a desire to express a mistaken idea...