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...would have my grandson study Rabelais, Montaigne, Ben Franklin and Li T'ai-Po, rather than William Jennings Bryan. Nor do I despair of students who, at times, unbend. They may become lovable conservatives, pillars of state, like Samuel Johnson and Pepys...
...this same Scholar will unbend so far as to slide 50 cents under the box office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar...
...another side to the question, however. Not that we would accuse the club of being falsely "high-brow." Not that we would for a moment go back to the old policy of barren repetition. Far from it. And yet it is not altogether unfitting that the chorus should occasionally unbend and give a few of the threadbare tunes still dear to the hearts of Harvard men everywhere. It does not smack unduly of small-town collegiate spirit to enjoy hearing the football songs and "Fair Harvard." The protests raised by the alumni in several western cities during the spring trip...
...entertainment by the Musical Clubs tonight brings up the old question of informal concerts. The Pierian Sodality has done yeoman service this winter in the Union pop nights,--service that has been greatly appreciated,--and once in a while the Musical Clubs unbend so far as to give a free performance for the members of the University. If these organizations could be made to realize how much the undergraduates enjoy hearing them play and sing, we believe that they would appear more often...
...heartily enjoyed. We are too apt to shut ourselves up with our own friends, and from the loopholes of our retreat to view the rest of our classmates with exceedingly indifferent eyes. This is doubtless pleasant, but it would prove more beneficial to ourselves and others if we could unbend sufficiently to cultivate other acquaintances. Be it understood that I am by no means advocating the "gushingness" of the Freshmen, nor do I suggest that we should be intimate with every one; but there is a happy mean between indifference and intimacy which might be with advantage more sought after...