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...material in the Lampoon is silly enough to be laughed at by a person drunk enough. It is fairly easy to be foolish, but it is the hardest thing in the world to be a clever Fool. Both wit and humor require intelligence, wit chiefly in the manner of presenting an idea, humor in the sympathetic study of life's absurdities. Satire, another form of art that makes its points by emphasis on the absurd, depends also for its force chiefly on the intelligence behind the ridicule. For satire is a form of criticism and as criticism gives opportunity...
...first poem, "The Red Path", a narrative poem somewhat after the earlier manner of Mr. Masefield, does not measure up to Mr. Freeman's best work, One is discomfitted by lines such...
...favor among its readers consequently is for it; still others, playing entirely upon sentiment, and having no regard for economic laws or anything else of even a semi-logical nature, will openly and blatantly advocate a bonus--the bill to be footed by Wall Street in some mysterious manner. But what is the general feeling of the people about the question? It is unfortunately true that when any such proposition is before the public mind, sentiment is the most influential in determining its opinion. The sentiment behind giving World War Veterans a present is very nice; from this and other...
...they want. Is Congress strictly a representative body obligated to obey every whim of the people, or should it, when occasion arise, hide the candy box? This is a case where the public is not capable of judging for itself, because the facts have not been presented in a manner uncolored by the prejudices of innumerable newspaper editors. Does Congress want to be right in the light of subsequent developments, or right only at the time of the next elections...
Randolph and Dunster Halls and Apthorp House have been taken over by the University authorities, and rooms in them will be assigned for the academic year, 1922-23 at the same time and in the same manner as those in other College dormitories...