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...commendable customs hereabouts, which will be observed this spring, as it has been since the vernal season first came into existence, is the appearance in the Yard of fresh, green grass. Yet there are people who would trample out these verdant manifestations; who take out their wanderlust by straying from the numerous paths upon the tender shoots. Of course the grass suffers; frequently it succumbs entirely and the Yard becomes an unsightly jigsaw puzzle. There are paths enough. Why not stay on them and give the grass a chance? And besides, he who wanders from the gravel walks...
Spring is here! For a long time we have doubted the Monthly poets, but all uncertainty has fled before the latest announcement: "Straw hats will bloom on Saturday." Even the verdant green of the terra firma and the bingle of the bat on the ball are sometimes treacherous signs of the love-making season, but who can question the authority of the appearance of the hay lids? The weather man has promised a glorious day for the grass helmets on Saturday, and -- besides--the goals are hungry for that old brown derby...
...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...
...Green Wound," author unknown, is, as its name implies, somewhat verdant...