Word: lampooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Dunster is located farther down the river and Adams on the old Gold Coast on Mt. Auburn Street. Between the Yard and the Houses, in the vicinity of Mount Auburn Street, are located also the Indoor Athletic Building, most of the clubs, and the offices of the CRIMSON, Lampoon, and Advocate...
...challenge has been issued by the Harvard Lampoon, undergraduate humorous publication, for the 5A.4C.D. challenge races on the Charles River next week. The CRIMSON crew has tentatively accepted this invitation, and it is expected that the race will be held on Monday, over the Henley distance in the Basin...
...easily on wires. Corinthian columns were near it. Above it were illustrious names, such as Parkman, Motley. Beneath it, of late, has been Speaker Saltonstall. So fortunate a fish wouldn't have swum away of itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were at once suspected. There is talk of a youth carrying a long box with Easter lilies sticking out from one end; of other youths smelling of liquor. But codfish begets thirst. Were these the lads to seek an appetizer? With great acumen the police searched...
...stuck to him. The striking things about Hearst's prankish, college days, which were twice interrupted by "rustications," were his comparative sobriety and calmness at the centre of the whirlwinds he created, and his real interest even then in publishing. He haunted Boston newspaper plants. He made the Lampoon not only funny but profitable. And he decided Joseph Pulitzer's sensational new World was the ablest newspaper in the country...
Author Weller's compendious calendar starts in September, with a Lampoon editor coming back early to get out the Freshman number; it ends with a senior, reluctant to move out at the end of the college year, barricading himself in his room against the janitor and his minions. Between are 421 closely printed pages, a kaleidoscopic camera's eye that picks out almost every type of individual and circumstance to be found in a big modern university. The book's coherence suffers from its multiplicity of interests and characters which mingle but never really meet. What story...