Word: granta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quality the Granta does possess which is foreign to its American proto-types, and that is the ability to ridicule without becoming bitter. Concerning its immediate victim, these United States, the magazine is gently cynical; but it never becomes heated and it seems always to remember that its "message" should remain subordinate to its primary function--humor...
...Granta, published by the members of Cambridge University (yes, the Lampoon's critic is from Oxford) offers an "American number." And besides being American it is a very entertaining number. The jokes are the jokes of Punch, but the hands are the hands of John Held...
...reviewer of the Lampoon commends the admirable restraint exhibited by omission of the obvious reference to "indifferent horsemanship." The Granta, possibly justifiably, saw no reason to exclude the obvious and its American number is liberally sprinkled with remarks concerning those things by which the United States is known to the Englishman: Hollywood, Mayor Thompson of Chicago, and banditry--of Chicago and elsewhere...
...Herklots is probably best known as an author. Not only has he edited his college magazine at Trinity, but also during the past year he has been editor of the "Granta", the best known university journal in Europe. His first book, "Jack of all Trades", a miscellany of verse and prose, was published by Ernest Benn, Ltd. early in June. And his reputation as a writer of light verse is not entirely confined to England, for more than once his initials have been found in "Life...
...papers are being produced by undergraduates this term, a weekly and a fortnightly. Cambridge is used to new papers; every four years or so a paper dies and a new one is born. The Granta and The Review are the only papers which seem to show any inclination to follow Methuselah. The Cambridge Mercury will be a literary paper devoted to Drama and the Arts. The "K. P. Magazine", named after Kings Parade the famous Cambridge thoroughfare, will be a weekly devoted to news and articles of general interest...