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This is a fable of the Bird and the Ink-Pot. The Bird inhabits a curious building on Bow Street, and during, the winter months refuses to be tempted from the comfort of his tiled nest, even when summoned by Telegram. The Ink-Pot's den is a short distance from the Bird's cage but what a gap it is in fact. Strangely enough, the Bird was originally drawn by Ink from its neighbor, but that is never admitted--not even by the Ink-Pot, whereupon the cover was clapped on; after a small tempest and flapping of wings...
...fact that the Bird and the Ink-Pot have certain annual customs, among which is a game, played between them, with Puck. And in this year it was to be played today, were not conditions entirely too bad. But the ice is entirely lacking on the surface, and the Bird is in great fear of getting his feet wet; besides, he likes ice elsewhere than in the rinks by the Charlesbank. And due to the forementioned disaster inside the Ink-Pot, his wings will not carry him, and he must depend on his legs spindly things at best, on which...
...Bird and the Ink-Pot have abandoned their game with Puck, and will wait for the Spring day when they have their annual Bat, before meeting this year...
...reported that one Freshman strayed into one of these parties and promptly fied when he discovered the "ogres of the class-room" assembled. Three graduate students from abroad attended and are said to have enjoyed themselves, while the few law students present hung disconsolately about the tea pot. But with the news spreading that Sunday teas in certain famous homes are very pleasant affairs more undergraduates may take advantage of the professors' "coming out" parties at the Union...
Apparently, if Harvard is a typical example, American colleges are rapidly becoming melting pots within "the melting pot" and their function has changed from local to national education. Or, if we return to our pansy bed, it has become a mass of varying color such as might be expected from a government package of experimental seed...