Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial difficulties of the Lampoon are no surprise to those well acquainted with the problems of maintaining undergraduate publications in the face of economic retrenchment on all sides. The temporary crisis which confronts the most venerable college comic in the country may deprive Harvard of one of her oldest institutions. Despite occasional lapses into adolescent bad taste, the Lampoon, in face of falling subscriptions and hostile trends "has endeavored to maintain a high standard of clean wholesome humor...
...apparent at the beginning of the fall term that the editors of the Lampoon had recognized the difficulties which confronted their magazine and had taken the steps necessary to obviate them. The subscription rate was dropped with the hope of increasing the circulation; the Board entered combinations with other publications and constituted itself a subscription agent; tailoring contracts were sold for a tenant; a new Cafe was opened. Finally, readers had begun to observe a radical improvement in the tone and quality of the Lampoon's humor...
Deploring the unimaginativeness of these publications, he asserted that the subjects for CRIMSON editorials might be prophesied days in advance, that all the jokes and articles in the Lampoon bore a certain resemblance to each other, and that he himself, at any given time could write up the material for a typical issue of the Harvard Advocate alone...
Somebody once said, "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken of the flood, leads on to fortune", and so one judges it is with the Lampoon. From the humorous material which the Lampoon, has been forced to run, such as the characteristic story of "Who was that lady?" the wisdom of the organization turned to the sale of Bologna sausage is self-evident. The announcement of the new venture itself gives the reasons for the new policy. Since the exhaustion of his cellar, Lampy's spirit has languished; now the basement is renovated...
Election of eight men to the board of the Lampoon, humorous undergraduate publication, was announced last night. The men elected are: Heywood Fox '33 of Pelham Manor, New York, L. T. Wing '35 of Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and J. deB. Bertolet '35 of Reading, Pennsylvania to the Literary Board; Vincent Palmer '35 of Milton and W. H. Lewis, Jr. '35 of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey to the Art Board; and R. B. Murray '34 of Hampstead, Maryland, H. T. Pierpont, Jr. '35 of Worcester, and W. G. Barker, 2d '35 of Brookline to the Business Board...