Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History, and Francis D. Moore '35, treasurer of the Student Council, ex-President of the Lampoon, composer of the music of the Hasty Pudding Show for 1934 and 1935, will be guests of honor at the annual dinner of the Fall River Harvard Club tonight...
Loftus E. Bocker '32 has been appointed to the position of Note Editor. He is a former President of the Lampoon. Henry S. Reuss, graduated from Ceruell in '33 and formerly editor-in-chief of the Cornell Sun has been appointed Legislation Editor...
...Unless two hundred paid subscriptions can be secured for the "Lampoon" within two week's time, the paper will be compelled to suspend publication. The price per subscription for the remaining half year is $1.50. A book will be immediately placed at Bartlett's, and everyone who is interested in seeing the 'Lampoon' continued, is urgently requested to enter his name there at once. Seventy-five of those who subscribed at the beginning of the year have not yet paid their subscriptions. The money for these must be obtained within a few days, as the paper is seriously involved. Subscription...
When interviewed as to the reaction to this frantic plea, A.T. Zupp-Zupp '84, erstwhile Ibis of the "Lampoon," confessed, in a still, small voice, that it had been alarming. All those who had paid for their subscriptions sold them for what they could get (a few went for as little as one cent), though the majority yielded a quarter or so. The crisis was only slightly severer than those experienced chronically by the "Lampoon," accounting possibly for its checkered chronology. Mr. Zupp-Zupp could only express amazement that the sheet is still in circulation...
Furthermore, the office in the Lampoon building will not be closed; laundry may be taken there, or bills paid just as during the first part of the year. The reorganization simply means that the control over computing bills, taking in the payments, etc., has gone to the New England Laundries. The majority of the profit still goes to students. Very truly yours, Dayton Wood Hull...