Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today. The colonies were not offered every indulgence, Home Rule, Dominion government if so there certainly would have been no Revolutionary war. The Irish are not bowed down under taxes that threaten to ruin trade. The colonies were not treacherous to the mother country in times of war (to wit: the French and Indian war) as were the Irish during the great war. In fact the points of similarity are so few that it is ridiculous to say that the cases are parallel...
There is no doubt about it, Lampy has a keen sense of humor. After having the feathers completely plucked off the Ibis by the Crimson ball chasers in the ball game yesterday, Lampy, with characteristic side splitting wit, stuck a sign on their building announcing that the Lampoon had won 23-0. It's very amusing, indeed, but it was not half as amusing as the Lampy who stayed up all night last week waiting for the Crimson to come and decorate the Lampoon Building, not half...
Lampy, as she stands in her current number, has been despoiled of the wit that made her. Alumni humor, it seems, runs rather to reminiscence than "nut stuff," and right now it is "nut stuff" that has the vogue. But the fault, Dear Ibis, is not your staff, but in your graduates, who have grown beefy...
...third angle we think of is that perhaps the reviewer's taste it is that's been altered. Perhaps the alumni's contributions are as fine wit as Lampy ever filled her pages with. Perhaps it is a too-young Arnold (Matthew, not Benedict) that flays this stuff that oldsters offer. But if it is, so be it. We would rather have a regular number from the fountain pens and India ink of the Sophomores than this special spring oddity that the graduates have thrown together...
...back they were graduated, the more they have been removed from The Stuff That Goes these days. The more the class numerals display their recency, the more do the contributions come near to being what the Lampoon now accepts. But even the best offerings could come much nearer to wit...