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AD PRAESIDEM HARV ARDIAN AE DEDICATUR

The Mail

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

He banished himself from the pedagogues' graces

By using, they said, inappropriate cases.

He gave to instructors abiding offense

With what they averred was contemptible tense.

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As one, they declared he was bound to encumber

All of his syntax with errors in number.

They scornfully called him an arrant offender

For always ascribing inaccurate gender.

Aghast at his singular usage of "ut,"

They ribaidly made of him ridicule's butt.

And never their irony suffered abatement

As vainly he juggled the indirect statement.

His genitive style, which he sullied with "quod,"

Made'em recoil as they would from a goad.

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