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...issue, which means that it cannot rival the best productions of Harvard literary genius of the past, but that its material, on the other hand, must in nowise be considered as below the usual standard of Advocate endeavor. And an issue of whatever nature, conceived and produced during the drab weeks when winter has gone and spring has not yet appeared, may be considered of no ordinary merit if it lives up to even the usual standard...
Curtis is an outsider, but a real contender. Nor would there by any essential injustice in his nomination. For he represents bold and dashing individuality tamed to the drab purposes of party routine. And that is essentially the history of politics in America
...whose eyes are so used to the "make up" of front pages, the cover of the Lampoon presents a splendid contrast to the drab and uninspired grayness of the CRIMSON. Fitting the subject to the contents of the issue, the cover represents an ocean liner (quaintly enough) setting out for Europe from its dock at the Weld boathouse on the Charles. The business school and the stadium are dwarfed by the ship's bulk as it puts to sea with Lampy sitting...
...serviceable military cloak. At that symbol the crowd cheered, remembering that Lev Davidovich Trotsky had appeared thus when he organized and commanded the Red Army of 1,500,000 men. Today, however, Trotsky is as threadbare as his cloak. Man and symbol they passed, last week, into a drab railway car which rumbled out of Moscow at twenty minutes after nine. The crowd, moved but still perfectly docile, fell to sobbing plenteous Russian tears, murmured, "Trotsky is gone. Trotsky...
...scene designer, in his undergraduate days at Cambridge, saw that the ugyl duckling need not be ever drab, which is certainly good news...