Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsomely bound volume containing the verses and pencil sketches of various Harvard professors which have appeared from time to time in the Lampoon under the title of "Drippings from a Witch's Quill" will be on sale next week at Harvard Square bookstores and at the Lampoon Building, it was announced last night. The collection, edited by T. G. Upton '31, C. E. Pickhardt '31, and Paul Brooks '31, is now in the hands of the printers, who are hastening its issual in time for the return of graduates to the annual commencement exercises...
...volume, bound in red and containing a dedication and preface done in the best Lampoon tradition, is blessed with a double title, "Mondays at 9" or "Pedagogues on Parade." The sketches of the aforementioned pedagogues, which have become familiarized to thousands of Lampoon readers in their appearance on the center spread pages of the humorous magazine, are the work of Pickhardt. In most cases they portray the salient topographical outlines of the professors subjected to treatment, as well as one or two prominent professorial characteristics inherent in the poseur...
...book, as might be expected, is dedicated to Bob Lampoon, the only living nephew of Sarah Lampoon, last of the white witches and inspiration of the work. An appropriate frontispiece depicting Sarah herself in her necromantic glory is contained in the work, also a well selected passage from the witches' incantation in "Macbeth...
Witnessed by a throng of over 500 people the annual Lampoon-Princeton Tiger baseball classic took place Saturday on one of the more obscure baseball diamonds at old Nassau. Lampy, with his customary modesty, declared the game tied 21 to 21 at the end of approximately the fourth inning, when the encounter was called off. Corey Ford, well known humorous writer for Life and Judge, happened up from New York to referee the event. Later the Lampoon humorists were entertained with dinner at a hotel in Trenton...
...management pointed out, "on the athletics, self-coached for all principle. Our methods will be entirely above-board, and with luck, at the bat, touching first, third, and home, we will win." Observers on Soldiers Field report that one of the practice sessions was spent in watching the CRIMSON-Lampoon clash, and if the scholars were impressed with journalistic methods, Eli key men should learn this afternoon what can happen to a man between the key-stone sack and the hot corner...