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John H. Updike '54, former president of the Lampoon, has won this year's Dana Reed Prize for the best writing in an undergraduate publication...
Saturday the crew rows against Navy and Pennsylvania; and the freshman class goes to the Jubilee. The track team meets Yale, and Lampoon prepares to clean house before restoring the Ibis...
...turn of the country, Harvard football games already attracted large crowds so large, in fact, that the narrow foot bridge connecting Soldiers Field with Cambridge nearly collapsed every time the mob poured over it. This severe congestion inspired The Lampoon to parody Longfellow's "The Bridge Over the Charles" with a poem beginning...
There is a poem in the April Lampoon that charges local reviewers with not reading "the journal they wish to undo." In an unexpectedly good issue, advance defense of this sort seems wasted...
However, when the Lampoon neglects spring, and turns to thoughts of pointed satire, the percentage of good pieces returns to the old, sorry norm. "His Object All Sublime' is a thinly veiled parody of a local figure. Besides not being especially funny, it's taste is questionable. And "The Future of Shakespeare at Harvard" revolves on the worn theory that the verbose extension of an absurd idea is uproariously funny...