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...subject--and that is that the Yard at this season of the year is magnificent. It is always impressive; in its autumnal garb it is even more so. Last spring when one half of the Yard was in the throes of an abdominal operation the scene was still sufficiently vernal and sufficiently inspirational to warrant odes and lyrics. And now, when there is nothing more disturbing than the sight of John Harvard in the hands of his tailor the sight is worthy not of mere editorials but of an urban Words-worth. While it is true that familiarity with some...
Spring brings her senior superlatives in the form of the best dressed, most charming, least objectionable and what not members of the graduating class. Perhaps it is the American mania for statistics, or the general vernal disintegration of mental faculties which produce these announcements that bring such joy to the hearts of collar manufacturers and movie stars. At any rate they are the vogue in many places, including, Princeton. And although Harvard possesses no superlatives of its own it has managed this year to receive mention in the array of immortals; for is it not ranked by the discerning Princeton...
Shore dust covered mortals who cloister themselves in the squalid dignity of senior chambers awoke one noon last week from vernal lethargy to the mess call sounded from a Pickwickian bugle. The Dickens' jubilee had included among its enthusiasts that stalwart figure in the green colonial smoking jacket--John Harvard...
Boston should be willing to suffer a temporary theatrical eclipse once a season if it can come out from behind the cloud with such vernal splendor as mid-April has brought in its train. And Boston's Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays will be only less happy for some time to come than its Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Winthrop Ames is producing Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" at the Plymouth on the odd days of each week and "The Pirates of Penzance" on the even days...
Then let us remember the vernal...