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Rumor has it and it not Rumor, then Human Nature that Adam's first words of wisdom were "Shall we join the ladies." Indeed and for a deeting weekend, the ladies take advantage of the opportunity to join Adam, and, to be more specific, to join his progeny, the sons of John Harvard.
They bail from diverse places, these fair frivolous and utterly fascinating visitors, and to a scholastic monastery they bring the charming graces of femininity. The ideas of March are here and with them the anachronistic April hours, but even such dark events as these must give way to the regiment of women. Lesser problems, such as Metal physical poetry, the Critique of Pure Reason and economic involutions, yield to greater what are her favorite flowers, and will there be a moon?
Therefore let there be violins and, for this once, even let there be saxaphones. Tonight a Gothic gaiety envelops Cambridge. The Gothic we have always with as hat the gaiety that we owe to the ladies. As Tiny Tim observed anent something or other God bless them every one.
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