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...clock tomorrow night, in a certain remote, dark, dank and inaccessible portion of Cambridge, commonly known as the Baseball Cage on Soldiers Field, certain heretofore staid, upright persons, the Class of 1916, will gather for a Junket. The Regimental Band, that aggregation of the world's most unusual musicians, will lead the way thither from the cliff-dwellings in the Yard, and will furnish sweet music while the erstwhile students disport themselves, seeking amusement in one of the many ways which will be provided for them. No less than two (2) Ethiopian Blackamoors will offer their carborundum...
That is why a greater leaven of radicalism in college teaching is desirable. The question whether a certain group of ideas be inculcated or not is of slight importance compared to the need of arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs...
...present members, we judge that they are ashamed of the fact that such questions as the relative merits of Napoleon and Cromwell were ever argued between its walls. The article on Princeton Customs, by Mr. Hunter of the Nassau Literary Magazine, is interesting enough to members of this staid old College where Rinehart nights are the chief vulgar amusement. But even at Princeton, customs are following in the path of Bloody Monday Night, which leads us to believe that Harvard is not alone so priggishly indifferent to youthful effervescence after all. "The Function of P. B. K." (if the printer...
...rush of these modern days few things in the world are more ephemeral than the productions of our periodical press. Nothing is staler than yesterday's newspaper, -- if you have today's; and even in so staid and decorous an organization as the book club of any highly respectable New England town, the dignified Reviews and seemly humourous publications that make their prim march from house to house excite in most members of the club, would they own the truth, but very languid interest when at the earliest they arrive at least six weeks after the time of their first...
...Staid guardian of our northeast gate...