Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no cartoon of what the Freshman does with his Christmas presents. There is no facetious time schedule of the cotillon snake, home from college for three and a fractional days. There is no stinging editorial against the Faculty because it still rations the University with a ten-day instead of a two-weeks' recess. There is no paragraph on the troubles of Christmas shopping in Boston...
...Lampoon has done well to mock a tendency which has become all too general in America. The America of the "parlor snake" is not true America, and Harvard men should be the first to prove this. True art and even true social standards as well as true hearts in the trenches must help us in the eyes of Europe...
...mighty group standing aloof to the West--Mont Blanc, perhaps. Ah, there are quantities of worm-eaten fields--my friends, the trenches,--and that town with the canal going through it must be M--. Right beside the capote of my engine, shining through the white silk cloth, a silver snake: the Rhine! "What, not over quarter to six, and I left the field at fivel Thirty-two metres. Let's go north and have a look at the map. Boo, my feet are getting cold...
...Cornell Sun, in its post-victoriam number, reprints under the heading "True Cornell Spirit" a paragraph from the New York Tribune commending the manner in which the Cornell supporters received the news of their victory. "In place of the wild dash to the gridiron and the rollicking snake dance, the Cornell men stood in their places and sang their college hymn. Then they hurried across the field, and, grouping before the Harvard section, cheered for Harvard." While of course Cornell's display of the victor's courtesy was in order and is appreciated, the fallacy in the Tribune's remark...
...wild dash for the gridiron and the rollicking snake dance" are spoken of as if such exuberance were obviously unsportsmanlike, as if there were something mean in thus "rubbing it in." On the contrary, it is a legitimate effervescence of the joy of victory. The defeated not only expect it, but they feel disappointed if the subtle compliment be omitted. "Is the query. Doubtless more than one Harvard undergraduate,-- and at least one,--was obliged to apologise to his companion last Saturday when the expected serpentine failed to materialize...