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The communication suggesting the inappropriateness for most occasions of the opening lines of "Fair Harvard," which we print in another column this morning, deserves more attention than we are apt to realize at the first glance. Certainly when we stop to consider the meaning of these lines, so familiar to every Harvard man, we must admit their inappropriateness in nine cases out of ten. But it is one thing to criticise and another to construct. If new words were to be written, as the writer of the communication suggests, we feel that they should only be officially adopted after the most careful scrutiny into their lasting worth. Surely no harm would be done, however, if the proper authorities were to invite the graduates and undergraduates to submit new words to our time-honored music, and a justified change might result.
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