Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pike. That same day Betty's brother, Oliver Baldwin, like Oswald Mosely a Socialist son of a Tory sire, hurried from London to champion Socialist Mosely. Finally the Mosely cohorts were swelled by onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald (Laborite). Smethwick bums and paupers cheered with loud good humor the stump speeches of this galaxy. Smethwick brats were soundly kissed by apple-cheeked Betty Baldwin and peftte Lady Cynthia Mosely. Betty Baldwin taunted Oswald Mosely with stooping to call Lady Cynthia "the Missus" for campaign purposes. That lady, indefatigable, harangued a Communist meeting; with a red flag in her hand...
...What the Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. . . . The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more sprightly than oafish malice. . . . It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing...
...degree that is almost unmatched. This is not necessarily a compliment. College spirit needs for its strongest expression an attitude in the individual that is a little less than sophisticated; a little less than mature. He must be prepared to swallow unquestionably much that a properly developed sense of humor would reject and to adbicate emotionally and intellectually at the call of the pack. As men grow to intellectual maturity they frankly hesitate to "die for dear old Rutgers," and as colleges grow in size and complexity they attract a larger proportion of such men, whose point of view spreads...
...Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. It is doubtful whether light poetry has ever been published which was as bad as this. The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more springly than oafish malice. And the ineptitude of this doggerel has marked all the Lampoon's effort this year...
...does this bear on the general question of the Lampoon's activities? It bears hard indeed. The things which the Lampoon tries to do are not in themselves offensive; but they must be done well or they cannot be done at all. It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing in public without his breeches. The Lampoon has no official connection with the university; it is published by students...