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Parody is at once one of the easiest and one of the most difficult forms of literary performance. It is an old, old business. As old, let us say, as the impulse to destroy your fellow caveman, whom you could not lick on the physical merits, by withdrawing to a safe distance and mimicking his personal mannerisms and tone of voice, or exaggerating in a drawing on a cliff-face the length of his nose or the style of his whiskers...
...German side of the argument is not to be ignored. Many critics agree that the inevitable result of the latest Allied demands would mulct Germany of every pfennig, destroy the small remaining value of the mark, and open the door for Bolshevism. Their opponents answer with a different suggestion. They assert that the whole affair will sour the Genoa Conference on the hands of Lloyd George, leaving him in disrepute, an opening the way for a triumphant Lenin and Wirth to come forward with counter demands quite in the manner of Stalky himself...
...they gave to athletics in other parts of the country, a stimulus that twenty years ago all colleges sought with all their might, and which we still carry out here with compulsory physical training for Freshmen; and intercourse between colleges of different sections, besides serving to unite them, helps destroy the ideas of Harvard snobs and dudes. This was never illustrated better than at the time of the California trip two years ago when the west discovered what Harvard is really like. If intersectional games are only players occasionally they are a good thing--the trouble comes when they...
...question of intersectional games is a matter of opinion. "The trouble comes when they are overdone". Absolutely correct, But, as we have frequently remarked before, the danger of their being over done is real. And rather than have the Harvard football team sent hither and thither to help "destroy the ideas of Harvard snobs and dudes", we would limit intersectional contests more than they are limited...
...kill off merely the workers? It is the mothers who breed future strikers. They too must be annihilated. If respectable people are ever to enjoy peace, the entire proletariat must be wiped out. By the expenditure of a few extra pounds of explosives, the air pilots can easily destroy the undesirable slum sections of our cities...