Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson lead-off man took the pole. From the time the gun was fired until A. H. Gordon '23, running anchor for the scribes, broke the tape, the Crimson representatives led the procession in spite of the fact that two fast men who were not members of the comic publication ran for Lampy...
...following a long conference between the CRIMSON management and George V. Brown of the Boston Arena. Only the pusillanimity of the Jester's hordes can now prevent the clash with the University daily. Preparations are being made for an opening eight-minute period, to be followed, in case the comic cohorts come up for more, by a second session of similar duration...
...said in my review that the college comic magazines have the advantage of being edited for their public. Let me give an example. The Lampoon has its ups and downs, but if I were asked to pick out examples of first-class undergraduate literary work at Harvard, I should include a good part of the Lampoon's former burlesque of the Transcript. The men who wrote that burlesque probably did not think they were doing anything of any particular literary significance; they simply wrote for the delectation of their classmates and friends, and then like the gentleman in Moliere...
...goosestep to Still man-on-the Charles. For when the "Younger Generation" is of the morrow, "Sunset by the Shore" will still be of today. And when the editors of college lit erary magazines begin editing and writing for their readers "as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do," we may have more "vitality", but we are not likely to have college literary magazines...
...Paul Jackson, and an editorial on Advance Information, concerning the selection of new courses, are timely discussions of very interesting problems. A story, "All That Glitters," by Miss R. E. Judkins, which is a serious treatment of the ever-old, ever-new marriage question, in spite of the comic sub-head, "A Pr-r-roblem Story!", and a story-thesis, "Talbot and Atropos," by Mr. L. F. Ranlett '21, an intricate treatment of an astronomical possibility, are thrown in for good measure. There are no poems; there is no familiar essay...