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...latest issue of the Lampoon--the Christmas issue, I suppose--resembles a rather thin, but well-cared-for child. For once there is nothing really bad in it, and there are several instances of genuine humor. It is a correctly-balanced issue, with the proper proportions of verse, story, and cartoon. Although the contributors to this Lampoon do not always succeed in being funny, they at least appear to have tried...
...current issue of the Lampoon has touches of pathos, murkiness, and banality; everything, in fact, except humor. Except for the traditional introductory poem there is almost nothing in the issue written with a gloss of genuine with, a bad state of affairs for what is ostensibly a humour magazine. Perhaps its crusading editors, saddened by the results of the recent elections, decided that frivolity would be out of place in the November issue; at any rate the whole magazine has a decidedly sombre tone...
...abandoned by frantic fans before the game who realized too late that there wasn't a parking space within a mile of the Stadium. When they came back after the game, other cars had piled up, completely blocking Holyoke Place and jamming Mt. Auburn Street in front of the Lampoon Building...
John received his biggest publicity splash in 1933, the day after Harvard upset Yale by a 19 to 6 margin. Two days before the game, some gentlemen from the Lampoon abducted the Eli mascot, Handsome Dan II, from his New Haven kennel. The Sunday following the game, newspapers all over the nation ran frontpage photos of Dan licking John's feet--or, at any rate, his pedestal. The pictures did not reveal the raw hamburger that was smeared at the base of the statute...
Turn of the century undergraduates joined the Union in flocks, partly because of its reputation for good food. Union chefs served up eight course dinners for fifty cents. The snack bar, which proudly "bottled its own tonics, sodas and minerals," offered a concoction called a Lampoon Soda (five cents). Imbibers would undoubtedly follow this with spirits of ammonia (ten cents...