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...YORKER who saw one of the Nine going to recitation in his uniform the other day was struck with his great resemblance to Tweed in his island suit...
...Courant and Record have got into an imbroglio of a most disgraceful character. The first blow was struck by the Record, in a four-page editorial of immoderate tone, charging the Courant with not fairly representing the College, and with having failed to perform the pledges given at its start. The spleen of the writer, however, is evidently directed against a particular individual, and finds vent in numerous villifying and offensive personalities. In the same issue a would-be humorous article contains several coarse and vulgar jokes at the expense of the Courant board. Thus far our sympathy is with...
...table the initial number of the Chi Phi quarterly, devoted, according to the editorial, to the interests of that fraternity. From motives of delicacy we have refrained from prying into the department which treats of the secrets and doings of this great brotherhood, but we were much struck with a bit of poetry entitled "Dead." Zimine, the heroine, is represented on the top of a "mist-shrouded mountain," while her lover "stands still in the gathering dew" at the foot, "listening and waiting" for her. The following verse, on account of the boldness of metaphor in the first two lines...
...that "run" thousands of times, and never thought about their projection, but only that each step was bringing us to hopeless "dead" or glorious "rush"? Graceful Holworthy and airy Hollis and Stoughton were passed by without comment; doubtless because their architectural beauty is all latent. Memorial Hall may have struck some tyro in architecture as being a little out of proportion, - one-sided perhaps. Let him banish all such doubts from his mind, for "the building is exactly symmetrical on each side of its longitudinal axis." From the same source we learn that "the Dining Hall is to be used...
There is also a superfluity of figurative language in some poems which is sometimes so frequent as to obscure rather than to illustrate the thought. Being struck by a particularly poetical idea, the author writes a poem to display it, but commonly the thought which constitutes the subject is contained in two lines, and the rest of the poem is filled with metaphor and figurative expressions. It seems quite possible that short poems might be written wholly without such...