Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always a difficult question whether to give the author of a scintillating, startling statement the gratification of being recognized by retorting or whether to pass it by as though of little consequence. The Lampoon's most recent witticism is a Lady Godiva as far as veils are concerned. Take it or leave it, look at it backwards or forwards, if you find it worth the trouble, the Lampoon's flattery is a peculiarly perfect art in which subtlety is omitted. Unless the Inklings editor uses Skrip ink, the stains he has gotten on his ibis feet are not the kind...
...York City particularly, where it is estimated that over 8000 graduates make their home, more placements should be made than in any other place, but up to now the Cambridge office has had few business connections there. The New York representative in his college days was secretary of the Lampoon...
Jokes live a long time at Harvard. Sometimes these jokes, especially cartoons in the Harvard Lampoon, which occasionally transcend decency, return from death to plague their perpetrators. A "Lampy'' cartoon of two dirty hogs "rooting for Princeton" did much to cause the not-yet-healed breach between Harvard and Princeton. Another cartoon last week brought the Lampoon's editors a threat of criminal action by the district attorney of Middlesex County...
Such Cruel and heavy-footed humor needs no comment unless that supplied by Pope to the effect that "gentle Dulness ever loves a joke." But a reader of the Boston Transcript has made a comment which has some merit. The comment was that the offense of the Lampoon's editors was a natural consequence of the Harvard administration's "policy of aristocratic and contemptuous indifference toward a group of unfortunate workers." After all, a university administration which has been content to evade and becloud a plain issue like the requirements for scrubwomen's wages under the State...
Before everybody gets too mad about it and follows the suggestion of State Representative Niland, of East Boston, that Harvard be punished by having its buildings taxed, a plea in extenuation might be offered in the fact that Harvard's "goodies" have been conventionally represented for years in the Lampoon as elderly harridans not above snitching a nip of the marster's gin. Still, even this might not be regarded in some circles as so very extenuating after all. --Baltimore...