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...number of the Monthly to appear before the temporary suspension of publication. This, to whatever "existing circumstances" it may be due, is a great misfortune. The Monthly, however much it may have been without honors in its own country, has filled to a certain extent the important post of Devil's Advocate amid the blatant orthodoxy of undergraduate life. And it has filled it, as anyone outside of College will tell you, with no little distinction. The Monthly has fallen a prey to all the ills that flesh is heir to, has had periods of wild absurdity and of utter...
...action taken by the Athletic Committee of placing in the hands of Dean Briggs the discretionary power of discontinuing intercollegiate contests in the event of war will meet with general approval. In times of national need "what the devil are we doing at hockey? We ought to be drilling and learning to shoot." We ought not to be wasting our energy in games when that energy is needed elsewhere...
...Britling says: "What the devil are we doing at hockey? We ought to be drilling and learning to shoot." R. L. WOLF...
...mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks of those who fail to recognize, calling it theatrical, that most holy thing, austerity...
...class of '88 came along with a three-sided transparency--on one side of which was a caricature-portrait of Blaine, on the next one, of Cleveland, and on the third, one of Butler; and these were respectively labelled, in the above order, "the World, the Flesh and the Devil!" Round and round the transparency turned...