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During the past winter the Lampoon has had serious cause for complaint against certain undergraduates who have resorted to the childish practice of smashing windows in the building, for no other reason, we hope, than that they wanted to get into John's after the restaurant had closed. This happened once last year, and on Tuesday night happened for the fourth time this year. Screening the windows did no good, for the screen was kicked in. The last attempt broke one of the ground floor windows, and looked like thoroughly malicious destruction of property. We feel that...
...same restriction equally to those men who are faithful in keeping college engagements and those who "cut" consistently as much as possible. We do not advocate for a moment the system of a definite number of "cuts" which obtains in most other colleges: first, because it encourages that childish sense of obligation to use up all the "cuts" whether they are needed or not; and second, because we believe with the Dean that it is in accordance with conditions here at Harvard to give a man a certain amount of liberty in regard to attending classes and thus to foster...
...this sort of "fun" will be omitted this evening. If an appeal to the members' sense of decency and regard for gentle-manly conduct (as opposed to the manners of a fourth rate boarding house) can have any effect, let us be free from a custom at once hopelessly childish and also capable of great evil to the College as a whole...
...refusing the use of a College building to Mrs. Pankhurst, the Corporation has doubtless been influenced in part by this. Far from "branding her as forbidden fruit" as the editor of the Women's Journal puts it,--and how childish such a statement seems!--the Corporation simply refuses to have reports circulated, in great, glaring headlines, to the effect that "Harvard Turns Suffragist...
With their drinking cups clasped in their soft little fingers, then pudgy little maulers clutching the tin tubas, and their pretty childish prattle fascinating the motherly bystanders, the Seniors will Subway to Park and thence to the Broad and Wide Way that leadeth to the berth of Kink Philip. Here Admiral Faussig of the Pinnacle will be discovered grouped on a bulk-head taking tickets with C. F. Mazen the Purser of the King Fillup...