Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another activity drawing many first year men will be the competition for any one of the three College publications: the CRIMSON, the Advocate, and the Lampoon. The CRIMSON does not call out candidates from the Freshman Class until after midyear examinations; the other two publications open contests during the fall, since a thorough knowledge of Harvard is not a requisite. Similarly, the Business Departments of these papers offer a great deal of experience, often very valuable, to their candidates. The Freshman Red Book draws many members...
...clock Monday evening. Phillips Brooks House will hold its annual reception to new students. The leaders of various undergraduate extra-curricular activities, including the Presidents of the CRIMSON, Lampoon, and Advocate. Presidents of the Glee Club, and Instrumental Clubs, and President of the Phillips Brooks House Association, will speak. There will be music by the Instrumental Clubs and refreshments...
...great contributions which American College education has made to the joy of living is apparently the institution of student third class. For the benefit of hardened cynics it may be well to explain that no Lampoon pun is intended in the foregoing. Reference merely was made to the great rush of American students for the ports of Europe which has not only lead to an overwhelming increase in the business done by the photographic board of the CRIMSON but has resulted in the conversion of lower decks of passenger liners into low rate Atlantic accomodations...
...since he recuperated from the illness which came over him when he got his first look at the yellow, green, black, blue, and red tiles being laid on the floors of his domain. He has been fairly well occupied giving the Boston American and Randolph Hall and the other Lampoon cossacks the latest inside tips on the most recent peregrinations of their Ibis, alias Harry the Stork...
Possibly a sense of humor would be dangerous to the intensity of conviction and idealism necessary to such statesmanship; perhaps a period of incarnation removes all traces of natural humor; at any rate the Lampoon seems to have been working in a sphere in which it is not appreciated...