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Just as in the fall and spring, when many are using the gymnasium, hundreds of others prefer the tennis courts, so in winter, although the gymnasium is then less unobjectionable, cost of us favor the open air. There is something a bit unpleasant in the cold still air of the gymnasium. Out of door exercise is vastly more alluring and invigorating...
Here, for example, is a bit chosen at random. It comes from a letter by Victor Chapman '13, of the American Aviation Corps...
...drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required to fight. We consequently were huddled together in a bomb...
Once upon a time, and not so very long ago either, the task of separating an average undergraduate from a bit of acceptable verse was well-nigh hopeless. Yet we find that of the eighteen contributions to the current Advocate all but four are verses, and one of the four is an appreciation of Amy Lowell. And several of these are rather more than acceptable. This is hardly the place for a discussion of modern poetry, but such a situation cannot escape comment. How the times have changed!--or is it merely the result of a long and assiduous storing...
...long as we would stand for it. Her vague "unsatisfactory" notes did not suggest blunt defiance. She never was directly hostile, and we do her wrong in saying she would have declared war on us even if we had broken off diplomatic relations. We also give Mr. Wilson a bit too much credit when we laud him for keeping us out of war, the only dangers of which were provoked by his weakness. P. W. WHITTLESEY...