Word: feather
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Either something has happened lately to humor or something has happened to the Lampoon's alumni. The Graduates' Number, just off the presses today, surely is no feather in the old-timer's straw hat this spring...
Harvard University has sometimes been misjudged by the ignorant or the feather-headed as a community where unessential are too highly regarded; experience of years and the cool impartiality of the record alike lead to the conclusion that at Harvard there is a valuable freedom from self-consciousness rather to be envied than decried. Too many undergraduate bodies--and too many persons long outside the academic enclosure--are so keenly concerned lest somebody else think lightly of their actions, that they neglect action for stodgy speculation. Before now, Harvard has had good ideas which she was not afraid...
Bantam-weight, 115 lbs.; feather-weight, 125 lbs.; lightweight, 135 lbs.; welterweight, 145 lbs.; middle-weight, 160 lbs.; light heavy-weight, 175 lbs.; and over. No variations in weight will be allowed; any man tipping the beam at the stated weights being moved up into the next class...
...Allied blockade on Russia marks the first step in a constructive policy of removing the "Red Terror" both from that country itself and from the rest of the world. While there are some who denounce this move of the Supreme Council as "peace by surrender" and as a "feather in the cap of Lenine and Trotsky," the probable results of the policy must be studied before it is thus condemned...