Word: lampooner
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Eager Yardlings rushed to sign the petition with cries of "Let me at it," "Boy!" In a more serious vein, William L. Calfee '39, ex-president of the Lampoon warned: "It'll need plenty of lab periods." John S. Stillman '39, newly elected president of the Student Union, speaking unofficially, snorted: "This bourgeosie farce, marriage, must go,--forever...
...Broun was a mere twinkle. He wrote for the highbrow Advocate, but was not elected to its board. His serious classmate Walter Lippmann made the heavy Monthly (now defunct). Rustic Stuart Chase wrote nothing but routine essays for professors. Ebullient John Reed made both the Monthly and the whimsical Lampoon. Beefy Hamilton Fish Jr. was in the literary Signet Society, partly because he was football captain. Brightest light of all was Thomas Stearns Eliot - he was taken into the two literary clubs, Stylus and Signet, was secretary of the Advocate...
...seems to me especially significant at this time that the Harvard Student Union last night elected as President John Stillman '40, a student who is a representative of as wide a diversity of campus interests as the Lampoon, the crew and hockey team...
Delegates from Ivy League comic college magazines poured into Cambridge last night for opening of the first annual comic conference, sponsored by the Lampoon, Harvard's comic...
...affair of today will be a noon banquet, Lampoon men expressed the hope that there would be no repetition of what happened at the Yale Record a short while ago. The Record had invited the Lampoon to a friendly meal but the Harvard comedians found that they were expected to ante $1.50 rental and were so annoyed about the way the thing was being handled that they appropriated considerable silverware...