Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When it was noised abroad that the undergraduate publications at Harvard were in favor of refusing Edward S. Harkness' gift of $11,000,000, it was generally conceded that the editors of the Harvard Lampoon and the Crimson were "out of order." The prevailing opinion seems to be that colleges should accept money under any circumstances at all times and from anybody who wishes to donate...
...Harvard Lampoon has done it again; but this time it seems to transcend all other offenses against good taste and sense, because the present attack on Edward S. Harkness is something serious and tangible...
...Harvard undergraduates will not be forced into sociability and collegettes. It has always been the spirit of "individualism" that has dominated life in the University,--the tradition founded with the college 293 years ago. On the historic grounds of old Cambridge, the student body, led by the Lampoon, are emulating their New England ancestors; possibly they are staging a little Boston Tea Party of their own to defend their traditional and customary rights to eat, sleep and choose their own friends and companions...
What great man was born on February 22? Why, Robert Lampoon, of course. Or so Bob told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The maitre d'hotel and fountain-head of humor for the funny paper on Mt. Auburn Street was warming his hands over a cup of Arthur's coffee and contemplating the prospect of having a birthday. As taciturn as his prototype, President Coolidge, the Lampoon jester forced the reporter to pry his secret from...
...heard me play my piccolo, haven't you?" This reporter had heard him play at a Lampoon banquet. "Well, I tell you, those days are gone. Not that they aren't nice boys, you understand. But their appreciation of art, of the finer things of life...No, I don't play any more, after their dances." Bob and his audience shook their heads sadly, reminiscently...