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...bold thing to do, to invade the British lion in his lair and meet him in one of his favorite specialties. Cornell lost, but its runners did better than could those of any other American university. And they very nearly won. Perhaps they will next time. --Boston Transcript...
Yesterday's Transcript had an editorial entitled "We Were Not There, Fortunately," that every Harvard man should read, whether pro or anti-league of nations. It points out with characteristic clearness who is bossing Europe and who would boss our country if we were to accept the league as it is. But more than that, it shows the absolute worthlessness of the promises of the very astute and supposedly sincere European statesmen. Mr. Lloyd George claims that England must manufacture poison gases "because the other nations are doing it." Where is the promise of disarmament...
Harvard's football "system" is thorough-going, but it would be well for some of these serious-faced young men to glance occasionally at the motto in the Bowl of the Stadium, which reads: "Dedicated to the joy of manly contest by the class of 1879." --Boston Transcript...
...Popular Mechanics" is now a sharer in the glory of the "Cosmopolitan" and the "Transcript" in that it receives attention to the extent of a copious special number of the Lampoon. To the unmechanically inclined reader there must be satisfaction in finding here the realization of many of his most impractical dreams, and genial and often pointed scoffing at the more obvious foibles of one of the chief ornaments of our newsstands. Whether the devoted reader of "Popular Mechanics" who has for years compounded folding beds out of hen houses by following the directions in his favorite periodical, will...
...somehow, as a whole, the number is not likely to achieve the recognition of the "Transcript" Lampoon, or the earlier but never-to-be-forgotten issue devoted to the Boston papers. This is not due, we may fancy, to any deficiencies in this year's board, but rather to the limited opportunity offered by the subject of this latest Lampoon. There is too little variety--after all when one has amusingly pictured and described a "Practical Canary Bird Feeder," or has devised a "Combination Comb and Worm Kit," one has sufficiently treated the usual contributions to "Popular Mechanics." To fill...