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...appointment of Messrs. Greenough and Coolidge as the first masters. When a Student Council committee headed by James DeNormandie and Arthur E. French came forward with a plan that would form a New Yard for the Houses on the land surrounded by Boylston, Mt. Auburn, and DeWolfe Sts., the Lampoon rebelled...
...days," his statement ran, "the Lampoon has precipitated morke frank and reasonable comment than months of CRIMSON editorials and whisperings in the parlor have done. Unfortunately, to the rest of the country, Lampy's attack has been branded as a personal ridicule of Mr. Harkness...." Then he went on to protest Lampy's serious intent.... But all the undergraduate criticism made little difference, as the administration began to plan the initial steps of construction that was to lead the House system of today...
...Hall. The Junior Dance Committee, amid waning interest, staged the last of many dances to be held in the building. The Committee, composed of R. A. Stout, A. T. Hartwell, F. B. Grant, J. H. Sachs, James Lawrence, chairman Sweezy, and treasurer James deNormandie, sat daily in the Lampoon building waiting for members of the Class of '29, who might have been overlooked, to report for assignment to one of the boxes surrounding the dance floor. But with only ten days remaining until the March 2 date, the committee still needed 100 couples. Bert Lowe's orchestra blared mightily...
Thousands of loyal sons of Nassau and Cambridge treated the Lampoon-written article defaming Princeton as a case of juvenile humor, but not so the Princeton administration, which felt the issue was the culmination of a series of Harvard slurs on its good name. The incident led into a string of articles appearing in national magazines which dragged "dirty football" and Signet rings onto the gridiron for a public airing which did little good, and only intensified already heated feeling on the place of the football giant in undergraduate life...
John H. Updike '54 of Cambridge, Mass., was awarded the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for study at a university in the British Commonwealth. He was president of the Lampoon and won the second Bowdoin Prize in English composition, as well as the Dana Reed Prize for the best writing in an undergraduate publication...