Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the death of Robert Stewart, better known as Bob Lampoon, Harvard's humorous magazine has suffered a vital loss. Steward of the Lampoon since 1915, Bob grew in fame and importance till be became a local character, famed for his piccoic playing as well as his story telling propensities...
...born in Cambridge in 1859, and the early part of his life has passed largely into saga form in his stories and reminiscences. Locally he worked on the Cambridge Horse Car Line, ran a tobacco shop near Beacon Hill, and for some time before he was enrolled with the Lampoon he was employed along the Gold Coast. Many of his stories dealt with his travels about the world, now as a bath-steward on a North Atlantic liner, now as crew on a cattle-ship. His repertoire included tales of the Boston fire and many epic incidents from Australian experiences...
Especially in recent years, Bob has been made famous by photographs of him in parody numbers of the Lampoon and in pranks executed by the board. A picture of him sitting on the Yale fence was the high point of a number following the famous theft. At the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon baseball games. Bob always drove the four-in-hand coach which carried the team over to the field and won renown for his pitching abilities against the CRIMSON. In more intimate gatherings in the Lampoon building, he was the equal of any bard in the mead hall, telling with...
Nobody can possibly fill Bob's place at the Lampoon; his character coincided with the spirit of the publication, combining endless good fun with a personality that made him a real force in maintaining Lampoon ideals...
Employing the crouch start exclusively, as well as a flying wedge for running interference, the Plympton Street team wrestled its way around the dusty bases in one frantic inning after another. It was finally necessary for the Lampoon players to purloin one of the bases in order to end the game with a triple...