Word: lampooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germaine G. Glidden '36, has been elected to captain next year's tennis team. Glidden has been prominent on the Lampoon during the past three years and this year won the Intercollegiates Squash Championship...
There can be no objection to the action of the graduate trustees of the Harvard Lampoon in requesting the resignation of the three principal officers of the Lampoon and in padlocking the building as a punishment to the Lampoon for the publication of its recent issue...
...former member of the Lampoon, I feel that it should be noted, in fairness to certain of the individuals resigned, that they were not all editors of the paper and were not in any way personally responsible for the material which appeared in the paper. Definite duties were assigned them which had nothing whatever to do with the editorial policy or make-up of the paper, and I understand two of them never saw the proof prior to publication. The newspapers and the public have been allowed to assume that the men who have resigned were primarily responsible...
...newest edition of the Harvard Lampoon, which out-Esquires that noble men's magazine and carries its burlesque to great lengths, has been adjudged unfit for the gaze of virtuous Bostonese. So the metropolitan censors have it banned as indecent from Boston newsstands...
...significant feature of the banning, is that no action against the Lampoon has been taken by Harvard authorities. What might undermine the Boston sense of propriety is adjudged fit for undergraduate consumption. The Harvard Corporation and administration at least conscientiously follow liberal policies in their control of the undergraduate presses. The university comic is not banned by those who are most sensitive to the reflections it may cast on undergraduate wit there...