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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lampoon comes out serene amidst alarms with a Vanity Fair number. Only by scattered references and the use of military terms in some of the passages which the reviewer is afraid to quote, do the punsters remind us of the military situation. It is just as well that, in these hideous times, we should be given something to take our minds off our studies. In fact, like the publication which it seeks to satirize, the present number of the Lampoon is calculated to take your mind off of anything. This is easy because it first convinces you that you have...
...mock a tendency which has become all too general in America. The America of the "parlor snake" is not true America, and Harvard men should be the first to prove this. True art and even true social standards as well as true hearts in the trenches must help us in the eyes of Europe...
...something at a time when many ties which have been close are severed to know that the oldest and the strongest bonds remain. The messages received yesterday by President Lowell from the heads of an old English and an historic French university remind us at this hour of the debt we owe to other peoples, and to older civilizations...
...have entered into the great world-war. Behind must now lie that life of cultural progress which seemed to us only a few months ago our highest goal. It is to be expected that many men will be sent across the seas to fight with the allied nations upon the fields of France. No one should narrowly feel that he is fighting the battles of an alien people...
...messages serve to remind us of our faith. The truth of our democracy has been challenged. We go to fight for the preservation of that liberty, equality and fraternity which is the basis of our national creed, and for that broad, un-grasping English tolerance on which our liberties rest...