Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...editorial has expressed a divine truth. Rejuvenation is exactly the variety of transformation which, we should say, was the Lampoon's most crying need. We do not ask for great originality. The College field is too limited. We merely plead that some-one endeavor to lure from the verdant spirits who have not yet fallen under the hypnotic influence of the established and irresistibly comic sources of our University humor, some joke, some drawing, that does not deal with the polar seclusion of Conant and Perkins, the chill heart of Radcliffe, the square rimmed spectacles of the Dean...
...inevitable and trite subjects of the opening year. The one entitled "Concerning Advice to Freshmen" is unusually clever; but it attempts to take the traditional Freshman away from us by asserting, in veiled language, that a Freshman may know almost as much as a Sophomore. This is unfair; the "verdant Freshman" has become a College tradition, and the Advocate is too respectable to break down wantonly so venerable a superstition. On the whole, the aim of the number is most commendable; it is only to be regretted that so many of our writers insist on following the plan of presenting...