Word: writings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshmen-about four, as I count-and edited by a stalwart band of twenty-five, mostly Juniors and, Seniors. It may be rash, but I venture to make a suggestion, that for one number the editors do not confine themselves to composing the editorial and "By the Way," but write the whole number, and then send out canvassers for new subscribers. No one knows what might happen. At present the effect of our college journalism on readers in other institutions is much what might be expected if the first and the second elevens confined themselves to coaching the Freshman team...
...must be oddities-rough edges in tradition, custom, manners, personalities to catch it. Here it is that the Lampoon is at a disadvantage. Life with us is too decent orderly, conventional, grown-up man- nish, and of the world worldly. There are few persons who of their won selves write caricature, merely ex-officio, in salt without meat. Again, very little that is ridiculous happens, and when it does, we are apt to regard it only in its ethical aspect, and solemnly approve or disapprove. Now and then, to be sure an event screams through the decorous stillness: witness...
...material which Mr. Stefansson collected for the Peabody Museum was shipped on a whaling ship to San Francisco, and will not arrive in Cambridge for some months. Mr. Stefansson will shortly go to New York, where he expects to write an account of his experiences in the Arctic regions...
...president of the Harvard Memorial Society. A committee consisting of the four undergraduate class presidents and the officers of the Memorial Society with a few representative undergraduates, was forthwith formed. Plans for a formal pageant were given up because the committee was unable to find any one to write a suitable piece. It is hoped that some eminent speaker may be secured for the formal part of the celebration. Another meeting of the committee will be held next week when more definite arrangements for the celebration will be made...
...quality of the songs is concerned, perfection is still a far distant goal. Now and then a really catchy tune is evolved, but it is rare indeed that good words and music are combined. Surely Harvard has no lack of capable composers or of men able to write appropriate lines, and if a competition is started early enough, and the real musicians of the University enter into it with the right spirit, we should not lack for songs which mean something...