The Press: Fools

Of all the qualities that have won for the Crimson (Harvard University undergraduate daily) high rank among college newspapers, urbanity has not been least. Has the faculty displeased the students? The Crimson editors have not gnashed their strong young teeth and given vent to puerile polemic. Cool satire is the Crimson's mode. Have undergraduates been boorish? The Crimson chastened them with mockery.

But last week, poring over the American Mercury for February, a Crimson editor came upon "Answer No. 62" in Editor H. L. Mencken's "Notes and...

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