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Sonneteering Sorehead Floods Square With Scathing Satire; "Sonnets of a Sorehead" Prove Bitter Against Everything

Didst thou not know, poor educated fool,

The School must rule the man, not man the school?

The unknown sorehead also vents considerable spleen against Professor Copeland. hailing him as the "self-styled sophist of Hollisian haunts," the dyspeptic bard describes one of Professor Copeland's famous readings as follows:

And uninitiate Freshmen swarm to hear

Thy muttering renditions year by year--

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Instead they see adjustments of a shade.

Cries for more air, or less, as case may be

Demands of silence from the tortured class--

These are thy hobbies. They are blind, alas,

Who thine attempts at bluffing cannot see,

If Keats and Shelley had been schooled by thee

Who then had sung of love and liberty?

Another fiery outburst is directed against the CRIMSON.

The sorehend haughtily asks:

What yellow sheet is this that floods the square

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