Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grinning baby grew up and became known as the Lampoon. But each Spring the CRIMSON still takes it across the river. Although the ground has grown too and thee is no more swamp, it always manages to rain for the game. So the grinning Lampon editors still get rolled in the mud. After awhile it began to hurt when their hair was pulled,, so now they all have crew cuts. But the score is still...
...CRIMSON-Lampoon game is about the only honest-to-goodness tradition left in a University that has successfully tried to keep up with the ever-changing and ambitious spirit of America. Serene old Harvard Yard is now a thoroughfare for perambulator and high school traffic, as well as for non-stop flights from the Houses to the Science labs, and we have an eight year old House spirit "tradition". The Hollis Hall pump, in the eyes of sightseers, is a three century old relic. In the eyes of students it is a year old pump...
...person who opens his mailbox after each delivery the tutoring schools, to the man who buys his own shirts the Cambridge laundries, and to the Freshman the Union food--each may begin to assume the form of an unadvertised tradition. But none has lasted as long as the CRIMSON-Lampoon game. May it be continued as long as the Lampoon is in existence and may the score always...
...secret practice field behind their palatial Plympton Street clubhouse and training quarters, the CRIMSON Varsity nine announced itself ready for the annual descent to the minors to play ball with their funny rivals down the street, who, for want of a better have taken upon themselves the title of Lampoon...
Strengthened by a very tight infield, the Lampoon ball team will take on the legitimate newsmen, who have not been defeated since 1907, when a nifty outfit from a neighboring female institution took them over. Boasting a powerhouse in Chorister Storey who will lead the CRIME into action, the Plympton Street batsmen feel they can cope with the fast balls offered by pitcher Elmer G. Ibis of the alleged humorists. Ibis has broken up many a game with a timely hit and has given the bird to the CRIMSON on several occasions...