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...youngster soon succeeded in giving the slip to the harrassed members of the New Haven representation, whose cars were unable to tread the treacherous path known only to the fleeing ten-year old. Deprived of their quarry, the Elis turned to vent their anger upon the University quarters at Red Top and swept down on the deserted Crimson camp- deserted except for six waiters. The Yale oarsmen dashed to the flag-pole and started off, but were checked in their flight by the valiant forces of the waiting squad. There followed an unequal hand-to-hand contest in which...
...Frank Crane. Therefore, in any gathering of civilized men, they are compelled to remain silent, and this for two reasons: first, because they cannot understand the conversation; and second, because their remarks cause rude mirth. Hence their innate longing to criticise, deprived of its normal outlet, finds this vent, to the dismay, disgust, and despair of intelligent readers. E. M. WESTON 1G. E. R. DUNN...
...heard from the dwellers in the Yard. Communications and denunciations will soon appear in their annual abundance. The justification of this old custom is to be found in the fact that it is successful in calling forth words of execration and condemnation. The Senior requires something upon which to vent his discontent, and then it distracts his mind from harmful meditation on the probable results of the world war, or the possibilities of more comprehensive knowledge of the fourth dimension. As David Harum says, "A certain amount of fleas is good fer a dog, it keeps him from worryin' about...
There is little, if any, of the college rowdyism, or "rah rah" spirit at Harvard. And for the majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...
Hitherto the CRIMSON has not mentioned the subject in its editorial columns for several reasons. It has not wished to become mixed up in the controversy which found vent in communications to us regarding the meaning of Socialism and the strike at Lawrence. Neither does it wish to get mixed up in the controversy now. At the same time, whatever Socialism may mean, and who-ever may be right, we are at least interested in this tract of the Socialist Club, not because we want to see more socialists, nor because it is a remarkable or flawless bit of argument...