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...thoroughly disapprove a recent article in the Lampoon, the moral of which was that we should all cheat did we not cower before threatened rustication. The tone of the paper is of course not serious, but such a treatment of the subject even in mocking vein is to be avoided as dangerous and apt to mislead. Were such a sentiment prevalent, we have no doubt that cheating would tend to become more instead of less common...
There are good lines in all these pieces, but the combination would have been greatly helped by at least one poem in lighter vein, more in consonance with the spirit of youth...
...humor, and expression. His Cuban in Wisconsin, who "doan' work, but just goes by," is a new type of that Beloved Vagabond with whom our sophisticated generation has developed such an odd, and yet not wholly surprising sympathy. Mr. Stoddard's "Mine Own Familiar Friend" is in a kindly vein, though it might more appropriately be entitled, "Mine Own Chance Acquaintance." The quiet humor of Mr. Porter's paper, "On Music," will be appreciated by men who prefer their own efforts in art to those of others...
...March number of the Graduates' Magazine contains Professor Peabody's opening address delivered in the Aula of the University of Berlin, on "Academic Reciprocity;" a delightful essay on local color in Harvard verse, written From a Graduate's Window, in a vein of kindliness end gentle humor that must inevitably re-establish that column in the affections of undergraduates at least, the address on "Emerson and Scholars," delivered at the opening of Emerson Hall, by E. W. Emerson '66; so much of Professor Coolidge's report as the Chairman of the Athletic Committee as bears on the question of professional...
...music, by L. B. Hall '05, is well adapted to the various songs, marches and choruses. At its best in "Soldiers of Fortune" and the "Ghost's Song," where the themes show considerable power of emotional expression, it is at times too heavy to suit the comic vein. Book and lyrics, by G. Aertsen, Jr., '05, are full of unexpected conceits. Though not always entirely effective, they occasionally rise to a very happy order of wit which is irresistible...