Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relations which may be truthfully described as more than just "cordial" not only exist, but become more and more obvious as time goes on. Today's meeting between the Tiger and the Lampoon emphasizes the friendly feeling which exists between the student bodies of the two institutions in a way which will be appreciated by all close followers of the Harvard-Princeton situation...
Over the present week-end the Harvard "Lampoon" will serve as hosts to members of the Princeton "Tiger". Arriving this morning by boat from New York, the board of the "Tiger" will be guests of members of the "Lampoon" until tomorrow afternoon...
...expose the false teachings of a nefarious publication. In its day this Mount Auburn Street magazine has caused many a scandal for one reason or another, but teaching erroneous history is something new. Go to your barber's and turn to page 52 of the current number of the Lampoon. What do you find insinuated there? That Will, who as everyone knows rests in Stratford-on-Avon, is buried in the Abbey...
...Yale Record, like its Cantabrigian counterpart, The Harvard Lampoon, has seen fit to ridicule the plan, and several undergraduates and younger alumni have contributed severe criticism to the columns of The Yale Daily News. The chief danger which they profess to detect is an undesirable "paternalism" which would force youths of varied origins and interests into an unwelcome intimacy, seriously interfere with the freedom of fraternities and other social organizations and possibly restrict the students to a boarding-house existence of prescribed hours of meals, study and sleep. In other words, it is charged that the proposed system, admittedly designed...
...monumental benefactions, Edward Stephen Harkness will have two whole issues of Harvard's and Yale's comic magazines to carry his name down to posterity. Upon the announcement last year that he had given $13,000,000 to Harvard for an inner-college House Plan, the Lampoon bitterly denounced Donor Harkness as a destroyer of Old Harvard (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). He was represented as trying to introduce anglophilic educational methods in a place where U. S. collegiate traditions have flourished for nearly 300 years...