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...psychic play in Boston, and its continued appropriateness today shows, perhaps, the small advance which psychic research has made in the last decade. The dialogue at the close of the third act may appear to some persons rather too one-sided and long; to others the bits of ghost humor may seem out of place, but when Peter Grimm finally leaves this world to return no more; everyone with an artistic sense carries home the impression of seeing drama at its best...
...organization in Harvard's administration building is most imperfect. Many undergraduates know this to be a fact through experience; probably the administrative force itself would hesitate before denying it. The sub-Freshman fights his way into college between opposing statements on his standing. The Senior gives up the ghost when he finds that no one can solve his concentration problem...
...lapse from good taste (if any there be benighted enough to notice such things), the conventional allusions to Mr. Cram, Terry and University Hall-these are the essentials of a routine Lampoon. These are here, each with a carefully introduced reference to an ouija board, a crystal, or a ghost. Quite in the orthodox fashion, the quality varies. Real humor hides between paragraphs of undiluted nonsense properly tinctured with spiritualistic jargon. Pre-eminence in the Lampoon's true field-good humored mockery of the incidents and figures in our academic daily round-is revealed in drawings and verse which, alas...
Exquisite Teuton witticism! German Honor? German fidelity? To throw this in the faces of people for whom the sweets of victory have long since turned sour, to tell the victors that the ghost of Junkerdom struts abroad with all its ancient insolence...
...College records show that one Thomas Sergeant was publicly chastised "For speaking disrespectfully of the H. G." By "H. G." is meant, of course, Holy Ghost...