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Relatively few Kirkland men write for the Advocate or the Lampoon, or own club ties. But a large number of its 357 members are active in WHRB, the Crimson Key, The Crimson, the Yearbook, the Harvard Dramatic Club, and the Band. Kirkland had two representatives on Phi Beta Kappa's Senior Sixteen list, and two second-place winners in the Boylston Oratory competition...
Obviously, this newspaper can no longer hide behind its Plympton St. indifference. No longer can it evade responsibilities. And so, President Pusey and Director Bolles, we implore: send Dean Bender to Hawaii, Coach Ulen to Australia, flood the Lampoon, do anything to save Yale swimming...
...have been satisfied to go down in history as the author of Madame Bovary, one of the most searching and compassionate stories of a woman ever written. But Flaubert was also gifted with an acute sense of the fatuous, had long thought his mission was to write an encyclopedic lampoon of human stupidity. At 51, he set out to write Bouvard and Pécuchet, the story of a couple of Paris copying clerks, simpletons both, who want to improve their minds. In preparation, he settled down to read everything he could find that passed as authoritative knowledge...
...especially beautiful, it did have character and an air of devil-may-care. But the new grey suggests only a drab conventionality which will mar the graceful, happy lines of Cambridge's oddest building. And it may also have the effect of reducing the high plane of Lampoon writing to a drab, humorless style. Witness the March issue...
There are two ways to save the tiles, and therefore the Lampoon. Having immense popular appeal, the editors could make a plea for donations to buy another identical set of tiles. Such a plan would have every chance of success: it would make people believe the Lampoon is poverty stricken. But if a great many persons in the University do not care about the Lampoon's financial status, there is another, more sure fire plan, entailing only the cost of a few cheap umbrellas. Lampoon men could hold meetings not in the Great Hall, but above it, on the distinctive...