Word: lampoonable
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...Harvard, Hall frequented the Grolier Poetry Bookstore and joined the Signet Society for Arts and Letters, where he lunched with Lampoon and Crimson editors including Daniel Ellsberg ‘52, who would later leak the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times...
More than fifty years ago, when Updike himself was in his late teens, he was an English concentrator at Harvard and president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. As an undergrad, he was involved in an infamous conflict between The Crimson and the Lampoon that led to the kidnapping of a bird and a president...
...spring of 1953, Crimson editors stole the Ibis from atop of the Lampoon castle. In retaliation, the Lampoon kidnapped Crimson President Michael Maccoby ’54 one night as he walked home...
...little mysterious to me,” Updike said yesterday of this and other pranks in which the Lampoon was involved. “I didn’t realize [the Lampoon] was also a social club...
...Senior Class Committee made history this spring when it declared that a staffer of the Harvard Lampoon is actually funny. (OK, that’s a low blow.) Elizabeth S. Widdicombe ’06—a member of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—will deliver the female Ivy Oration, the more humorous of the senior speeches, at Class Day exercises today. It’s clear that Widdicombe’s wit has already won over her friends...