Even the Mayor's office in the old Boston City Hall seems to be sighing for the days before Prohibition according to a "yellow doggerel" sent to the CRIMSON yesterday by Mr. Joseph Smith, assistant to Mayor Curley.
"I am sending you," said Mr. Smith, "this latest if not the last, sigh of the thirsty. Take it as a peace offering and an evidence from Boston, and its City Hall that Harvard still holds a high place in its esteem and respect, and a sporadic case of bad manners is not the standard of Harvard conduct. Even the ghastly humor, and tragic dialect of the Lampoon will not wring our winners or change our views."
Mr. Smith's poem follows:
The Moving Spirit
The Moving Spirit of our land
Keeps vigil off our coast.
Defying Volstead's heavy hand
And arid Humbug's host,
O Spirit of our Pilgrim sires
Save us from foes accurst,
And quench the fires of our desires
For lo,--we are athirst
Oh Moving Spirit of the Age
When men were really free,
When Humor, Wit and Persiflage,
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