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...everything the college man does is sifted, weighed and from it are deduced generalizations to fit a pattern rather than an individual. Those of us who are occupied in the pursuit of parchment letters to add to our names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty-one a boy is an ass; the sooner we can resume our high ambition of becoming great and useful...
...against mumps, typhoid, or loss of laundry, free. Other papers are taking up the gage of battle and London rocks under the strain. It is interesting to speculate on the adoption of similar policies by our "wide-awake" American press. The possibilities are limitless. Imagine the staid old "Evening Transcript" taking in washing, or that specialist in muck raking,--the "Boston Orifiamme"--offering to insure any of its subscribers so rash as to venture into Back Bay after dark...
...literary pretensions are consequently ingenuous and insignificant. The members of this club enjoy seeing their works in print; this enjoyment is the only return for their trouble. Why the magazine should have been compared to "Life" I cannot see. The CRIMSON might as well be compared with the Transcript. Moreover, if Mr. Code wishes to compare, why does he not place the Lampoon against the "Sour Owl", the "Orange Owl", the "Tiger" or some other less zoologically named paper of humorous character? As for Lampy's boast of being the father of "Life", I would like to call Mr. Code...
Very annoying as well as amusing is your attitude toward Ireland. All the absurd bigotry of the "Transcript" has prevaded your editorials, and, like the snobbish offspring of a similarly snobbish parent you now patronize Ireland in her new freedom. "Through Tara's Hall", your most recent plaint, is particularly snotty...
...order are being attacked even by those who wear the robes of the law, and who do not scruple to lay their hands on the most sacred institutions. It is well to have the functions even of this fundamental institution laid down in black and white. --Boston Evening Transcript...