Word: take-off
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...sale this evening contains an entertaining aggregation of Freshman jokes and even one thrust at the swaggering Sophomore with his new pipe. The centre page well illustrates a real phase of Freshman life and some of the other sketches are creditable. Perhaps the most successful attempt is a take-off on the poetry of Kipling and his admirers. Several stray hits are scattered throughout the number and a wandering member of the University is welcomed back and his exploits rehearsed in a manner truly dazzling and wonderful, but scarcely appreciable by the college at large...
...illustrations are on the whole creditable, and the written contributions have, to an unusual degree, caught the spirit of genuine humor. The take-off on Richard Harding Davis' latest story in Scribner's is especially successful in this respect...
...Pudding play this year should be a great success. It is more of a burlesque than last year and contains more local hits. All the parts are well taken, Schurz, Woodruff, Stone and Rust being especially egective. Perhaps the best thing is the specialty by Schurz and Woodruff, a take-off on "Secret Service." Fenno and Scaife are rather graceful in their dance, and Rust sings a soldier song with very telling gestures...
...centre-page is very well executed and, moreover, truthfully delineates a very annoying characteristic of our evening lectures. A "Jolly Dialogue," a well written piece of conversational farce, in the form of a take-off, is by far the best thing in the issue...
...indoor track of the University of Pennsylvania beneath the grand stand on Franklin Field has been completed. The track is made entirely of cinders so that it will not harden in cold weather. There are two 100 yard straightaways and a take-off and pit for broad jumpers...