Word: lampooner
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...Draper Hill, Jr.: Eliot; Lampoon-Ibis; Hasty Pudding...
Except for an imaginative story by Jos. F. Fletcher, Jr., and a memoir by Francis B. Biddle '09, which was cribbed from a forthcoming book and which has as its only relation to either humor or Lampy the mention of Lampoon twice, there is absolutely nothing worth reading in it. Despite diligent seeking over the years, one cannot find a more fruitful way to waste time than spending an afternoon with Robb Sagendorph '22 ("Upon this occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Lampoon, we must not forget in our fond reminiscing aobut the past, that the present and future...
...find Thresky (short for Threskiornis, which supposedly stands for Ibis Aethiopia) there now. For the Lampoon's sacred bird-symbol is reportedly still recuperating from injuries received at the hands of the CRIMSON last Spring. And besides that, the years have been tough on this venerable symbol of recent CRIMSON-Lampoon rivalry...
...started, as far most local historians can remember, sometime around the Second World War. Written records are scarce and biased, but the consensus seems to be that a CRIMSON editor was badly injured by a fall from the Lampoon roof while either stealing the bird or attempting to return it after it had been stolen...
...some reason the Lampoon thought David L. Ratner '52, the rather staid editorial chairman, had stolen its bird, so they kidnapped him and took him to an abandoned house in Ipswich. They took his clothes from him for a night, then gave them back and lashed him to a pot-bellied stove for a group picture. Shortly thereafter, Ratner escaped, and the 'Poon soon recaptured its bird...