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...Because they want to be the best. He-bray-ists in the country. Our Biblical editor admires the joke and dislikes to spoil it, but he must display his knowledge, and inform the author that it was n't that kind of ass at all. Vide Numbers xxii...
...this uncultivated class is not supposed to exist in the "headquarters" of refinement and intelligence, these remarks apply only in part to those whose present literary efforts are confined to our college journals. Upon the hypothesis, then, that Harvard men are shrewd enough to distinguish a good joke from a bad one, and too refined to relish vulgarity, the conclusion is this, that he cannot be a popular writer who, for the sake of a joke, oversteps the bounds of good taste...