Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late last night Nathaniel G. Benchley '37, President of the Lampoon expressed his fear that the Lampy team cannot play if it rains today. His complete statement to the Crimson follows: "I fear that the Lampy team cannot play if it rains today...
Probable lineups for today's game: CRIMSON LAMPOON C. Storey, lf rf, A. Zwoncus J. Reidy, rf cf, B. Zwoncus C. Foote, ss lf, C. Zwoncus C. Weinberger, p c, U. Dope J. Field, lb 1b, A. Dope J. Allen, c 2b, D. Zwoncus J. Tyson, 2b 3b, E. Zwoncus J. McCutcheon, 3b ss, Z. Zwoncus, Jr. H. F. Huey, OcC, cf p, E. Ibis...
...conversation turned to the Lampoon I don't remember; but without prejudice I say Mr. Santayana does not look at it anymore. He is glad that the Harvard Monthly has been revived and happily recalled that he contributed to the magazine when it was first founded many years ago. I asked him if he would over return to America again. And from there the conversation turned to the subject of "seasickness", bromide and the English Channel...
Other parodies in the exhibit include the spurious "Crimson" published by the "Lampoon" in 1933, announcing the election of Henry Eliot Clark, a Midwestern business man, to the presidency of the University, and various "Lampoon" burlesques of national magazines...
Examples of the modern student publications here are also shown, among them the "Crimson", "Advocate", "Guardian", "Monthly", "Communist", and "Lampoon...