Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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President and Mrs. Lowell cordially invite all students of the University, who remain in Cambridge for the Christmas vacation, to come to their house, 17 Quincy street, on Christmas Eve, Friday, December 24th, from 8 to 10 o'clock.
A special committee of ten men from the class of 1923 has been appointed to assist in the campaign to carry the Sophomores over the top in the Endowment Fund drive with a 100 percent subscribed. Each man will be assigned to see four men who have not as yet...
In his latest number Lampy has concocted a sort of repressed Christmas medley. As one turns the hushed pages of his humour one somehow cannot recognize it as being really an effect of Christmas. To be sure there is the mild "Sania" spirit; the Yule log sputters over and anon...
There is something sacred about a Christmas number which Lampy has been quick to perceive and he has striven to prepare a feast of humour at which Anthony Comstock would not have blushed to sit down. Occasionally a quip becomes recalcitrant and breaks loose, only to be swallowed up again...
There is much serious verse that is good, an editorial that smacks of Lampy's halcyon days and a free translation into Chinese English of the Jimmian equivalent of "two threes" as "one couple in the royal bath for three exalted minutes"--which is not altogether Comstockian. Mr. Choate's...