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...mightlest name on earth--long since mightlest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or brightness to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on". STOCKTON KIMBALL...
Perhaps finger-print signatures are almost as ancient as those of the cross, plain and simple. Pirate stories abound with descriptions of contracts, signed in blood by solemn imprint of the fingertip--or, more often, of the "massive thumb". Tom Sawyer's famous compact has been an inspiration to many a romantic youth. And artists, from time immemorial, have used the finger-print as a personal signature on drawings and paintings. But in spite of so honorable an ancestry, the idea of compulsory finger-prints seems to be meeting with some opposition...
Group pictures of crews, clubs, and editorial boards in past generations preserve the impression that our ancestors in their college days were mature and solemn men. Sartorial fashions, no doubt, contribute to the effect; but a record of student ages half a century ago would probably show an average of at least a year more than the prevailing number now'. Yet a large portion of President Lowell's annual report is devoted to an appeal for students to enter college at an even tenderer age than is now common...
...newly-elected Senator had been caught smoking in the Senate chamber. What sacrilege! to besmirch the sanctity of the room where Thomas Barton lived his dying years, where the Civil, Spanish, and Great Wars were conducted, where Webster, Clay, Sumner, and other great men of the past gathered in solemn conclave; where, indeed as Dickens once described, one could see "so many honorable members with swelled faces.... caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow of the cheek. It is strange enough too, to see, an honorable gentleman leaning back in his tilted chair with...
...when it lives but does not flourish; many of those who write for it have more than usual talent. The importance of the Lampoon in life at Harvard, quite apart from its tradition, cannot be valued too highly. Few of us would want all Harvard undergraduates to appear as solemn and grave as they do in the serious publications. It is good to feel that the Lampoon is in such good hands this year