Dear Editors, You may be wondering why an 82-year-old man is writing to a college newspaper. Well, the reason is simple: I have a problem with it. I have been reading the Tripod since last year. I was excited about the prospect of learning about the happenings 'neath the Elms, but I am sorry to report that I have been baffled by the content of these pages.
6 CommentsTo the editor of the Tripod: He must be far gone in idle speculation who believes - with the infatuated cadre of scribblers on the Tripod editorial board - that an arduous course of study taught by a professor justly famed for his weeklong lecture on the "bills of credit" clause of the Constitution, and his affecting tribute (extending a fortnight or more) to the provision - less elegant than serviceable - guaranteeing uniformity in customs duties imposed by Congress and collectible in the port cities of the Confederacy - I had begun to say, one must be lost in idle dreams to believe that factors at once anomalous and adventitious (e---------le b--------hood!!) must be invoked to explain the enormous enrollments which the class customarily draws - enrollments which continue to increase despite the surtax which all students in "The Formative Years" are now required to pay (the sum was $184 during the Spring semester of 2008).
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