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...Number are interior to the letter-press. Mr. Saunders's cover in the manner of Maxfield Parrish and his rapid sketch of a Spanish maiden and gallant have distinction. One unsigned drawing entitled "Little Willie's Idea of African Golf" is also inspired. But the other drawings do not stray far from the conventional. Indeed, the art department appears to be the weakest part of the Lampoon. The magazine seems written with more freshness than is the case in those frequent, bare years when it lives but does not flourish; many of those who write for it have more than...
...order that no stray outsiders may gain participation in the privileges of the day, each Senior will wear a special uniform consisting of a pair of white overalls and a black cap. A pair of blue swimming tights is also a necessary part of each man's equipment. The Cooperative Society will be open today at 7.45 A. M. to allow men to purchase uniforms...
...year ago, after the football game, a dietist announced that the reason for Yale's defeat was the lack of certain nutritive elements in Connecticut food and water. This excuse was tacitly accepted by all; but the true result of the situation has just been pointed out: the supposedly stray calories have gone to build brain. Mr. Stewart, discoverer of this fact, frankly admits that Yale has now gained intellectual ascendency over Harvard, due to the new social prominence accorded the savant in New Haven. Not that culture is sought for its own sake; no, praise God. "Yale is Yale...
...regular uniform has been decided upon for the picnicers, in order that no stray outsiders may gain participation in the privileges of the day. The outfit is the only official one, and is thoroughly distinctive, consisting of a pair of white overalls and a black cap. A pair of blue swimming tights is also a necessary part of each man's equipment...
...most part the book is composed of fragments dealing with a wide variety of subjects, stray bits of Tolstoy an philosophy and opinion, little anecdotes, and casual impressions a gathered together with no attempt to make a unified whole. But through it all there runs the ever recurring effort of Gorky to classify Tolstoy and to determine if possible what manner of man he was. With the simplicity and unselfconsciousness of the Russian, Gorky bares his own soul in the hope that the world may see the effect that the great man made upon him. At times he believes that...