Word: shrifted
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...fallen a prey to all the ills that flesh is heir to, has had periods of wild absurdity and of utter dullness; but it has ever avoided that smiling self-complacency which is the predominating note of our other College papers. Nowhere, however, does a heretic find shorter shrift than in an American university, so, particularly at this time when orthodoxy in word and deed has been raised to a mystic religion, there will be few to weep the Monthly's temporary demise. Yet Harvard sorely needed the Monthly. In the world outside it was looked...