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Ever since the halcyon days of Percy Houghton, Harvard men have anticipated the football season with all the spicy zest of an Italian soldier about to be sterilized by his dusky foes. Indeed, a football team which leaves its scalp, shirt, and reputation on Soldiers Field has become part of the fine old Harvard tradition. For years, the only brilliant thing about the team has been its golden pants...
Indeed, ever since the righteous days of Cotton Mather, Harvard men have attended afternoon Hygience lectures with all the zest of a courtesan at a prayer meeting. It was probably too much to expect that even a new regime in the Hygiene Building could change over-night the traditional attitude of Harvard men towards the subject of health. In view of this feeling demonstrated again day before yesterday in New Lecture Hall, Dr. Bock's abolition of the voluntary lectures appears as a logical, though unfortunate, course of action...
This morning, its pages charged with pictures and stories of angelic cleanness, "Lampy" brought out a new issue. But we, its unhappy readers, miss the zest and blood-tingling thrill of phrases saturated with double meanings. Gone are the days when men were men and jokes were jokes. The inexorable censor has done his work. Within a few short weeks he has changed vivacious "Lampy" into reading matter fit for the suckling babe, has transformed the flirtatious courtesan into the demure virgin. Thus we lament the decease of a spirit which filled our hearts with glee and our minds with...
...Modesty has always been supposed to add zest to a wooer's conquest . . . but the Sultan was too mighty to fight for his prize. . . . The slave maiden was allowed a scanty choice of fascinating devices. However beautiful she might be, the three silent obeisances that she made as she entered the bridal chamber could not bewitch the master's senses by their eloquence- for the most part he did not notice them, for he was already...
...solution, the pleasure and satisfaction derived from a CRIMSON competition compensate for the effort required. The jovial fellowship with those who have already proved their competence, the invigorating contacts with enterprising business men throughout the east, the presence at the focus of University events, all contribute to the zest of this, the most fascinating activity of undergraduate life...