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...read its pages regularly for several years the Monthly, through its November issue, appears to be now clothed in a staid and homely sobriety which is at once grateful and disappointing; grateful because it speaks careful thought and meticulous expression; disappointing nevertheless, because the impression it leaves is one of somewhat ponderous mediocrity. We should gladly excuse graver faults if the aims of the magazine had been higher. One of its editors used to say to candidates, "Now go home and pour some hot tar into that story." With the exception of two very significant political utterances--Mr. Allinson...
...manuscripts tell us that in the Middle Ages students, when they had finished their studies, would congregate in open places to play games and indulge in healthful recreation. The roughness of the sports and the evident enjoyment of the participants were noted with surprise by the staid and sober chroniclers of the time, and these old scholars were inclined to shake their heads at such fruitless effort. As the games seemed to give the young men a certain mental alertness, the scribes suggested in their writings that perhaps the sports should not be forbidden...
...Hughes is far in the lead, and it is the opinion of many prominent "Old Guard" Republicans that he will be nominated on the second ballot. Governor Samuel W. McCall being one of these. There is, however, a strong undercurrent of Roosevelt feeling, and although the Convention seems unusually staid and difficult to stampede, there is sure to be a great fight tomorrow, with Senator Lodge as a probable compromise candidate. The Weeks headquarters are still confident, but it is unlikely that he will last beyond the first ballot...
Tomorrow the bars of propriety will be lowered, staid looks, flowing gowns and flashing buttons laid aside, and the Senior class, filled with a wild abandon, their loins girt up with overalls, will go forth to picnic. For four years the main endeavor of each man has been the acquisition of knowledge. Tomorrow the chief pursuit will be pleasure. For four years the class has gathered for its smokers and dinners. Tomorrow it will gather for the last occasion of merriment, the last festival and carnival of jollity, during the days of undergraduate enrolment in the University. Let 1916 rally...
Arrived at its destination staid 1916 will indulge in baseball games, a greased pig contest, a lively 100-pound porker having been specially donated for the occasion, and various other forms of amusement. The return trip will start...