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

Each morning with its enervating news?

Who but a college student would peruse

Such antiquated items as are there?

The type is jumbled, columns upside down,

Authorities misquoted and abused.

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While most of the vocabulary used

Would be an insult to a country town.

Oh swindlesheet that barks all ancient views,

Mayhap the curtain down on you will ring.

While once again the voice of truth will sing

Triumphant o'er a prostituted muse.

Oh journalistic ethics of great fame.

What crimes are thus committed in thy name.

The Union comes in for its share of attention when the sonneteer, observing on the exclusiveness of its membership of 2000, reflects on the culinary charms of its dining room.

When broke, the student steers his steps to where

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