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With all the nervous preparation that precedes the youngest daughter's a debut, Harvard is decorating the house--stringing advantageous lanterns and fabricating white fountains in exciting places. The Yard is rapidly losing its staid respectability and assuming the artificial glamor which distant relatives and more distant story-writers expect of it. And the Seniors, most of whom have too much to do at present any way, are losing many valuable hours on tours of inspection, on discussing the whys and hows of the water system. The bandstand is as yet in too embryonic a state to attract attention...
...family under sixteen, against mumps, typhoid, or loss of laundry, free. Other papers are taking up the gage of battle and London rocks under the strain. It is interesting to speculate on the adoption of similar policies by our "wide-awake" American press. The possibilities are limitless. Imagine the staid old "Evening Transcript" taking in washing, or that specialist in muck raking,--the "Boston Orifiamme"--offering to insure any of its subscribers so rash as to venture into Back Bay after dark...
...variety knows as little about the contents of "The Ladies' Home Journals" as the average barber shop customer does of the interior of the "Police Gazette". So the magazine should be instructive as well as highly amusing. For the editors have somehow managed to infuse more humor into the staid appearing contents than is usual in the ordinary burlesque of this type. Though there are bits obviously designed to cause the Inhabitants of Radcliffe to stealthily hide a blush, there are also sketches reminiscent of the Transcript number at its best...
...British reserved and non-committal, and have rather prided ourselves on cur furious hospitality and careless assumption of familiarity--the traits with which Dickens drew Colonel Diver. The "man on the street" may still up-hold these traditions, but with the colleges it is apparently otherwise. The supposedly staid Cantabrigians are the ones who clamber over carriages, while with all its Americanism Harvard has never been known to cause its visitors any strain other than that upon the eardrums. In spite of the "inconvenience and embarrassment", however, over-hospitality certainly has its advantages. Admiral Sims, or any other famous American...
...golden calf which America worships" cannot be shattered by "quiet staid respectability." Nor can an intellectual aristocracy which hugs the fireside, and sips tea--or coffee, and fiddles with ideas "guide an amorphous democracy", intellectually or otherwise.' This is no time to indulge in neo-classic vagaries. Now, as never before, the world has need of its youth. There are vital problems to be solved, courageous beliefs to be voiced and translated into action...