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Harvard has always been chock-full of dynamite students. But 200 years ago, a Harvard secret society wielded actual dynamite, which they used multiple times to blow up the famous water pump in front of Stoughton Hall. Long before The Crimson editorialized and The Lampoon lampooned, an elite Harvard society banded together against the administration, painting the town red and the John Harvard statue a similar crimson...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Doctors" of Destruction | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

...twins known as Cheng and Heng, a sea serpent rumored to frequent Massachusetts Bay in 1830 (awarded “M.D. et peculiariter M.U.D. Med. Fac. Hon”), and Tsar Alexander I—long before either the Hasty Pudding named a man of the year or the Lampoon inducted an honorary member...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Doctors" of Destruction | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

While Sylvester, a former Classics concentrator, claims that working on The Lampoon didn’t directly affect his music career, he definitely brought a musical influence to the humor magazine...

Author: By Katie M. Goldsmith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pitchforkmedia Writer Starts Buzz with New Record Label | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...anything, I’ve been guilty of pushing music on The Lampoon,” Sylvester says, “booking crazy concerts and B-list rock stars, and the issue I edited was exclusively about pop culture and music...

Author: By Katie M. Goldsmith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pitchforkmedia Writer Starts Buzz with New Record Label | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

Sylvester and LeMay were also part of the band Forced Premise while at Harvard, a group comprised largely of Lampoon writers, including current Ibis Simon H. Rich ’06-’07 and Robert J. Dubbin ’04. Despite the group’s common interest in humor writing, there was nothing comedic about their music...

Author: By Katie M. Goldsmith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pitchforkmedia Writer Starts Buzz with New Record Label | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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