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...editor of the paper which published this falsely-sentimental fiction (New York Tribune) once received a letter from a wag: "Kindly stop our Tribune immediately. Grandmother died last night...
...discoveries, Mr. Hardie, Labor member, asked whether the Government had any proof that Pharoah's body was really in the tomb. "No, Sir," replied Mr. MacNeill, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, "the Government is not aware that the body of his late Majesty is in the tomb!" Another wag solemnly inquired whether any request had come from Egyptians to dig among the tombs of British Kings and Queens in Westminster Abbey, and what reply would be made to it? A disgusted Under-Secretary merely glared...
Years ago a wag sagely but feelingly remarked that life was just one exam after another; and at least twice a year a majority of undergraduates agree with him. The mid-year period is one of those times. Now many men are facing their first important college examinations, others are puzzling over the sort of questions the hitherto unknown professor is likely to ask and the sort of answers the even less known reader is likely to enjoy; meanwhile the Library is uncovering the thumbed and torn papers of years gone...
Disputale at will upon the idiosyneracies of Bryan, or llylan, or some of our English Professors; upon the latest entry into the field of education, the college for crooks; upon the difficulty of not antagonizing one's advertisers; upon the murder wag--but then, stop. Turn the flow of searching discourse to the favoritism of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Lampoon; to the advisability of renovating Holyoke House and Apthorp; to a discursive dissertation on the brilliant conversation heard on Massachusetts avenue at yet it is time to stop. Exhort the track team and the crew...
...trained on this campus. There are only a few things to remember and the greatest of these is courtesy. Accordingly through the approaching summer when the horned gentleman tempts to crime remember that the critical graduate and the gossipping world are at his heels. And their tongues wag loudly--like a minority of touchdowns in November. Yale News