Word: yalensicula
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...Yale Courant opens fire with some two columns of items, misnamed editorials. It is pleasant, too, to know that "WE ARE CHAMPIONS!" The Courant is mostly Yalensicula and Book Table. The 'Varsity's change of cover is no improvement, we fear; but the 'Varsity is emphatically a paper of sound judgment, - except possibly as regards the Notre Dame Scholastic, with which it is waging bitter war on the question of a college paper's right to publish official communications. The Yale News appears to be seriously alarmed at the indications of a "brace" by Harvard in athletic matters. "When Harvard...
...games, and much dissatisfaction is felt at the two serious defeats - 4 to 0 and 7 to 0 - which the nine has lately received; the fielding record has been good, but the nine is weak at the bat. The reviews in this number are mild but judicious, and the Yalensicula column contains fully as many thrilling personalities as usual...
While in the matter (not manner) of illustrations, the Courant copies the Lampoon, its items, entitled "Yalensicula," flavor strongly of the Boston Transcript. The imitation in this case is more successful; if the Courant's illustrations are not nearly so good as the Lampoon's, its items, in style and taste, are almost as bad as the Transcript...
...more quotation, taken this time from the department headed "Yalensicula," will illustrate, if our other extracts nave failed to do so, the chaste diction of the Courant. Possibly apropos of the "Promenade," we are told that "she danced lovely - but she was engaged to the fellow who ate eight plates of ice-cream...
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