Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Lampoon, humorous undergraduate periodical, has once again blown itself into the public eye. The initiated know that the avowed intention of the comedy therein presented is to cause sagacious wink, but the Boston and Cambridge public have frequently found occasion to look upon the product with wide-eyed horror. The present irritation was caused by a drawing in the last issue depicting the now famous scrub women engaged in staging a Bacchanalia on the proceeds of the bonus supplied by Corliss Lamont and his associates...
Either because of an astounding innocence or a lurking diabolic sense for publicity, the Lampoon editors have succeeded in acquiring quite a facility in arousing public feeling. "The Boston Evening American" with Mayor Russell as lead off man gave various citizens an opportunity to brand the ill-advised drawing with the telling marks of their disapproval. The Reverend Mr. Duval has attempted to stop the smoking mouth of Lampy with the dictum that the cartoon is "the worst insult ever perpetrated by a college publication against womanhood." William Randolph Hearst, tycoon of the "American" and one time Lampoon editor...
Cheek is president of the Dramatic Club, Pickhardt was Chairman of the Arts and Cuts Committee of the Redbook, and both he and Madden are Editors of the Lampoon. Field was Editorial Sub-chairman of the Redbook, and has been Assistant Managing Editor of the CRIMSON, while Campbell is Secretary of the Lampoon...
According to an announcement made yesterday the Harvard Lampoon fall competition for the Literary and Business Boards has been brought to a partial conclusion with the nomination of four candidates for election. The following are the nominees, all for the Business Board: Bradford Bachrach '33. Charles Sheafe '33, B. P. Rogers, G. B. Van Ness...
With a total of 260 votes Robert Schuyler Ogden of Brookline was elected Ivy Orator, while Paul Brooks, of Cedarhurst, New York and president of the Harvard Lampoon won the position of Orator by a great majority...