Word: lampooner
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...Sorry, gorgeous, but I'm all dated up," responded the big bird, who was actually none other than Thresky, missing Lampoon Ibis. "I must attend in person, because I am escorting the Yale Record Owl. We will appear in something big and round...
...evident animosity displayed during the Princeton-Harvard game can only be taken as a demonstration of the same spirit which produced our editorial." Lampy huffed, while at the same time apologizing for the bad taste of the editorial and the whole issue. "The pressure was there, however, and the Lampoon was merely the first to put its finger on it," the letter to the Princetonian continued...
Letters now began to come into papers up and down the East coast from both Harvard and Princeton graduates, deploring the much-debated issue of the Lampoon and indeed, deploring the whole situation. The New York Worldeven ran an editorial on the matter entitled "Bad Manners at Harvard." The World declared that somebody should take the whole undergraduate body of the college out behind the barn and "teach them a few lessons...
...while these isolated cases all agreed in criticizing the Lampoon and the small minority at Harvard for its bad manners, the average undergraduate at both colleges did not treat the matter with any great seriousness. The student at Cambridge felt that the Tiger football players were a little rougher than ordinary and that their undergraduate body did overdress; while the man of Princeton, although somewhat rankled at being called an underwear salesman, still looked forward to the next football game with the Crimson as one of the highpoints of the fall. This was apparently the limit of the "evident animosity...
...Lampoon sent a letter to the Princetonian apoligizing in full for its editorial and declaring that "unwarranted seriousness has been attached to the matter by both Harvard and Princeton." In their apology, they admitted that they had "committed a breach of good taste which did not have the support of the Harvard undergraduates." The pot, it seemed, had cooled...