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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although it is hardly within the sphere of the CRIMSON to criticise the other College papers, we feel that the parody on "Fair Harvard" in the last number of the Lampoon calls for some adverse comment. The writer may have intended to ridicule away the suggestion that more appropriate words could be chosen for "Fair Harvard," but his verses seem to be in extremely poor taste. Harvard may take pride in its freedom from antiquated traditions, but it is possible to carry cynicism too far. The song, which is parodied in the Lampoon, has meant much to generations of Harvard...
...letter sent to all members of the Union, the Library Committee has requested co-operation in an attempt to check the systematic borrowing or stealing of books which has taken place this year. Of actual thefts no comment is necessary other than the expression of a hope that the perpetrators will eventually be ascertained. The individuals, however, who borrow or hide books which are much in demand may be amenable to reason and to a recognition of the rights of fellow members. Recently a certain book was prescribed in Philosophy E. Immediately the volume disappeared from the library...
...honor which should be paid for, if not bought, by a certain amount of effective work. For anyone to receive office with bored indifference or with the knowledge that he has neither the time nor inclination to fulfil its duties, is too plain a mistake to need comment. And yet this sort of mistake is made many times each year. We refer especially to the smaller clubs and societies with no particular prestige to insure their continuance...
...current number of the Monthly contains a harsh editorial comment on the young instructor at Harvard--a somewhat exaggerated statement, written from a not altogether unbiased point of view. After discussing the absurd position in which certain Seniors have been placed by appointment to positions as assistants in courses where they must correct the work of their own classmates, the editorial proceeds to discredit the entire system of employing men but recently graduated, as instructors in undergraduate courses. Such "a man," says the editorial, "who goes directly from his undergraduate work here into the work of teaching other Harvard undergraduates...
...Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds--and the love of Paris until he saw Helen" ought not to be necessary in a college community, but perhaps the author is right in taking no chances. The other poems call for no special comment H. Bagedorn's "Song among Ruins" is finished and pleasing, W. H. Wright's "Ballad of Primeval Things," conventional. A. Davis's "Battle Hymn" suffers from too evident striving for vigorous phrases, which sometimes ends in grotesqueness...