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...general hilarity of the reading matter. The illustrations are unusually good, carefully drawn, suggestive and appropriate. Some are purely humcrous, some satirical, as the "Suggestion for Gore Hall," "The Insignia Craze at Harvard," and "Why change your hatband every day?" The two last mentioned are especially appropriate as a protest against the growing love of wearing distinguishing insignia, a custom contrary to tradition except on Class Day. It would be absurd for us to allow this trend to lead to fraternity pins and grips which is its natural outcome. Some of the jokes are very good but are hardly equal...
...meant much to generations of Harvard men, and it seems almost sacrilegious to distort the well-known verses to furnish sport for a few readers. It was especially unfortunate that this should have appeared on the day of the Intercollegiate Track Meet. Harvard men might understand it as a protest against the suggestion to change the words of "Fair Harvard"; but men from other colleges--if any of them chanced to see the Lampoon--would have but a poor opinion of Harvard's reverence for one of her oldest traditions...
...remarkable that in a college where modern literatures are so eagerly studied, so little attention should be paid to those of Greece and Rome. This neglect is partly due to the worthless utilitarian protest that we should study only things which we can sensibly use in our life, and partly because of the undergraduate belief that in Harvard the study of the classics is not made worth while...
...editorial on "The Young Instructor" is the one jarring note in the number. Conched in extravagant language and containing many obvious exaggerations, it is intended, ostensibly, as a protest against some aspects of the system of employing a large number of young instructors and assistants to correct themes and to supplement the instruction given by lectures in large courses. The protest is directed especially against the employment for such work of men just graduated from college, who, it is agreed, are "bound to be" narrow; and in some cases, where three-year men are assistants in courses taken largely...
...more strictly Harvard part of the number, the chief article is that of M. S. McN. Watts on "The Athletic Situation." This is one more protest against the assumed hostility to intercollegiate games of the special investigating committee. Its argument, like that of most students writing on this topic, is vitiated by assuming that wholesome competition stands or falls with the intercollegiate system. The excessive emphasis here given to the importance of intercollegiate sport in maintaining the influence and reputation of the University seems to the reviewer only another proof of the charge that athletics are viewed by many students...