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...Boston sense of propriety is adjudged fit for undergraduate consumption. The Harvard Corporation and administration at least conscientiously follow liberal policies in their control of the undergraduate presses. The university comic is not banned by those who are most sensitive to the reflections it may cast on undergraduate wit there...
...what strikes me particularly is that the purpose of the whole publication seems to have missed fire. I remember reading in Mark Twain's Sketch Book not long ago a most gruesome (to the unsound of wit) story about "My Bloody Massacre." Briefly, it describes how Mark Twain wrote under the guise of a murder story a biting satire about a certain person, but no one who read the paper paid any attention to the little details that showed what a great fiction it all was As I remember one bit: "Gosh, Jim, he scalped his wife and b'iled...
Cummings may indeed get a pure text but if the present volume is any indication it will not be "pure" in the Brattle Street sense. With his usual acumen, he has already ensured against that. For his recipe for poetry is apparently a dash if wit, a sprinkle of imagery, and a pinch of smut. The last condiment is easy to find despite his commendable ruse in transliterating into Greek certain English monosyllables which always arouse Mr. Dirty Mind, the true-born censor. There is a blank page, whose missing text appears only in the holograph edition, and the penny...
...began to blunder toward a solution. But the answer he hit on wore spectacles. Meantime young Otto was struggling with the agonizing fractions of adolescence: he suspected his best friend and his mother of at least wanting to be lovers, and because none of them had the wit to stop him in time, ran off one night and drowned himself. Richard found he was less pure a mathematician than he had thought, doubted that he would ever solve man's microcosmic problem, but knew he would never give up trying...
...Wit.: But Your Honor. I'm not on trial, I'm a witness...