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...joke--at any rate that is the most charitable explanation of unfair tactics which have frequently appeared among the players as well as the spectators. This year the captains are doing their best to insure fair contests, but they will not succeed unless the supporters of the teams refrain from taking a hand in the game. The winners of the series are awarded numerals--a distinction which should carry sufficient weight to check any sympathetic playing by the crowd...
...certainly unreasonable to oblige him in turn to disturb all the students of those two dormitories by a noise which has no object and no excuse. Most men in College do the bulk of their work not in the morning early, but in the evening late, and most Seniors refrain from 8 o'clock recitations, and have therefore no need and no inclination to be awakened at 7. Moreover, in exceptional cases, alarm-clocks are used, and prove quite efficient. This custom, then, which served a purpose a few generations ago, and which has, in modern times, out-grown...
...number. Though one feels an echo of the Dowson kind of poetry, the echo is passed on with a new voice, a voice not so sickly and more ingenuous. In Mr. W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez' "Clerk o' Cardiff" there's a whiff of good story, an insistent refrain, and a manner of words and rhythms reminiscent of Kipling through Alfred Noyes. "Persicos Odi Puer", a happy immigrant translation from Horace by Mr R. J. Walsh, might perhaps have taken even more advantage of its "freedom...
...meeting of the Freshman class in Lower Massachusetts last night, it was voted to furnish the Class Dinner committee with a guarantee that no excessively disorderly conduct will be permitted at the class dinner. It was also voted to refrain from wearing preparatory school insignia around College...
Most difficult of all to estimate is Mr. Wheelock's achievement in "Sea-Visions." The irregular metre and occasional faulty rhymes ("moan" and "gone," "saw" and "door") are disturbing. The overlapping phrases in the first line of each stanza, on the other hand, and the insistent refrain, "O thalassa, thalassa," are decidedly effective, and only fail to be completely successful, perhaps, from the fact that they seem a bit too consciously employed. These, however, are minor faults in a poem which, as a successful attempt to treat a great theme worthily, is decidedly unusual in undergraduate verse...