Word: lampooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, advised him to stay out of a field in which Judge and Puck were already established. Single-minded Publisher Mitchell went ahead with his plans, engaged as literary editor a young man named Edward Sandford Martin. Six years out of Harvard, where he was a founder of the Lampoon, Martin had the definite idea that that college comic could be transmuted into a professional periodical...
...know what they do? Why they just subcirbe to college magazines and cut out the jokes. It's colossal, that's what it is, colossal!" Although the star of Cole Porter's latest show admitted he had read lots of these he had never seen a copy of the "Lampoon", but this was explained when he said that he only read the funny ones...
John Reed came to Harvard from Portland, Oregon, and graduated with the Class of 1910. He took a normal, fashionable part in college activities, made the Lampoon, was cut from the CRIMSON, was head cheerleader during the football season of 1909, wrote the Pudding show, and consumed champagne and caviar at some of the best Boston deb parties. He went to New York, fell under the wing of Lincoln Steffens, became interested in the plight of labor, organized a gigantic labor pageant, was jailed for radical activities. Went to Mexico as war correspondent, made friends with Pancho Villa...
John B. Bowditch '37, president of the Crimson, then talked of the CRIMSON competitions for Freshmen which would not open until after November hour examinations, due to their length and difficulty. Arnett McKennan '37, secretary of the Lampoon, mentioned the famous fanny men who had been developed on Mt. Auburn Street...
Opening the program, Rolf Kaltenborn '37, President of P. B. H., will outline the work done in Brooks House, placing emphasis on the Freshman Committee. Other speakers and the organizations they represent will be: John B. Bowditch '37, President of the CRIMSON, Arnett McKennan '37, Secretary of the Lampoon; F. Corning Kenly, Jr. '37, President of the Advocate; John H. Eric '37, Secretary of the Glee Club; Theodore C. Osborne '37, President of the Instrumental Clubs; Lemuel B. Hunter '37, President of the Pierian Sodality of 1808; Walter H. Page, II '37, Manager of University Football; George G. Hedblom...