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...most extraordinary cartoons ever published was one by Oliver Herford, in Life, representing Publisher Hearst as a terrible, glossy reptilian, crawling over the earth, nose to ground, its nine writhing arms stretched out to grasp as many State capitals...
...University will be represented by President Lowell, Dean Briggs, and Professors Kirsopp Lake and R. B. Merriman '06. The list of honorary members from outside the University who will be here includes James Montagomery Flagg and Oliver Herford. Stephen Leacock telegraphed yesterday his inability to come, though he had hoped to be here...
...Oliver Herford inevitably has, or succeeds in giving the impression that he has, which is the same thing, a sort of literary Midas touch. Everything he lays his hands upon shines forth with the glisten of real gold. This touch is by no means limited to what he writes and draws himself; all he needs to do is to write a paragraph or two in introduction and the body of the book which follows even though it be anthology, obligingly puts on a golden tinge. So with his latest collection of "Poems from 'Life'". The casual reader opens...
...Herford himself expresses doubts as to whether after the introduction is printed there will be any space left between the covers for poetry, and it is the poetry after all that is on the dissecting table to be reviewed. But even this is simplified. There are two main tenets of faith supported by the editor in forming this collection of poetic emanations of the "Comic Idea". First; the poems are to be grouped each according to the musical instrument that best represents its particular note, and there they are classified, ready to satisfy the reader's merest subconscious mood...
...policy comes largely through the desire to take the advice of such literary lights as Charles Dana Gibson, president of Life, E. S. Martin '77, Life's Editorial writer and one of the first editors of the Lampoon, and Oliver Herford; all of whose suggestions would seem worthy of the weightiest considerations" explained Nichols. "These men seemed satisfied that the Lampoon had maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable deviations. They felt that the only way was to be thoroughly consistant in the policy and not to permit a half-way reform...