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...acrobats and town cut-ups from the class of 1917 take notice! More writing and drawing men are needed on the Lampoon. Make a joke if it kills you! Sharpen your wits and your pencils, and come round to the Lampoon building tonight at 7 o'clock. The work of the competition will then be outlined. Be a scream! There are a lot of chestnuts still left on the tree. Get under it and shake down a few! This is your last chance to be funny. Get in before the rush! Be a wag even...
...Modern Drama," in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library on Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock. The first lecture will be on Wednesday. The purpose of these lectures is to arouse a keener interest among theatre-goers in the better kinds of contemporary plays, and to sharpen the appreciation of the art of the theatre...
...board of editors: it usually indicates the character of later issues. To judge from the present specimen, readers of the Advocate for the rest of the year may expect to find there each fortnight a few suggestive editorial notes, in the discussion of which undergraduates may find occasion to sharpen their wits, several short stories calculated to suit varying tastes but never dull, and some bits of verse which should not be analyzed too closely...
...seek the gate, and that once Opened, you can win power at will. You have found in your books, which are faithful, delightful companions, your remedy for loneliness, your solace for grief or pain, your freedom from tormenting cares, your subject for stimulating intercourse with your friends. Sharpen your tools and plough deep in this rich field of literature, art, science and philosophy, under the guidance of our noble teachers of Harvard University, who long to help you, but who can do it only if you choose...
...Murdoch gave also a short description of the methods of transportation on sledges and then finished with a description of a peculiar method of trapping wolves. The Eskimos take a piece of whalebone about a foot long, sharpen it at both ends, and bend it into the shape of a letter Z. This bone is then imbedded in a piece of blubber and frozen there so that it retains its Z shape. When a wolf sees one of these balls of blubber he swallows the mass whole. The heat of his stomach melts the blubber and the whalebone, thus...