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...it’s all because of the members of a mysterious “Castle” located on the corner of Bow, Plympton, and Mount Auburn Streets. A semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon churns out comedy writers as efficiently as it prints copies...
Conan C. O’Brien ’85, a former writer for “The Simpsons” and current host of NBC’s “Late Night,” got his start in slapstick at the Lampoon. Famously, he was elected into the organization in his freshman fall and earned the title of President two years in a row—a feat accomplished only twice in the Lampoon’s 129-year history. But despite O’Brien’s high-profile role on-camera, it is mostly...
...good as his actual mapping ones. The quip did not change the Advocate gatekeeper’s mind. Earlier, the architect had marveled at Harvard students’ surprising conservatism; he was especially intrigued, he said, by final clubs and other exclusive social venues. The Advocate, the Crimson, the Lampoon, the final clubs, the administrator listed in response; these are the spaces to which the Harvard College Pub will provide an “inclusive” alternative. He had tried to get the architects into more of the clubs, calling final club presidents a week in advance to request...
...stone’s throw away from Lowell House and the Lampoon, the Zine Library occupies a small room inside the faded, wood-paneled building at 45 Mt. Auburn Street. The house, home-base to the Harvard Social Forum (HSF) activist coalition, was once a Harvard frat, and before that, a gentlemen’s club. Today, it is a mecca for young radicals, leftists, and anarchists, many of them Harvard students affiliated with HSF and the rest Boston locals just there for the zines...
...doordrop boxes were bursting, and since 2003, the door-dropping has only increased. Upstart glossies like Cinematic and the new Current challenge old guard standards like the Independent and the Advocate, and a half-dozen humor magazines try their hardest to make us laugh harder than the Lampoon...