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The Senior ballots have finally burst on an expectant Campus and true to form most of the old standbys have repeated, Biology, Professor Hall, the Princetonian, Phi Beta Kappa, and other notable Campus institutions. There is always, however, sufficient variety to cause interest, and not a few surprises.

To be deplored, however, is the prominence given to Harvard as a woman's college; it is this sort of thing that works more harm than it affords amusement. Internal criticism of whatever nature is always permissible, but amusing oneself at the public expense of others is particularly bad taste. A case in point is the memorable Lampoon issue of last fall embodying what the editors thought legitimate humor. In the Tiger it would have been, but that would have been a laughing with rather than at. The Daily Princetonian.

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