Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immeasurably grieved that Mr. King has so misinterpreted the attitude of the Lampoon in its Business School Number. Mr. King takes up the standard for his alma mater with all the vehemence that we love to see in red-blooded American business men. It is such qualities that have made Harvard's Business School and such qualities which will assure that worthy dispensary, long life...
...King has, however, in his sensitive zeal, mistaken what the Lampoon intended for the most unmitigated propaganda. I have it on good authority that the Lampoon editors, rather ashamed of their past misdemeanors, felt the time was propitious to recoup their lost prestige, by a whole hearted and enthusiastic hosanna for this meritorious department of the University. Through the number they are their level best to praise the Business School. It was a very unselfish thing to do, I believe, and I am sure that the rest of the college agrees with...
This issue of the Lampoon is in its essentials a "special report" of the Business School as a part of the University. A group of undergraduates, not seeking academic distinction but not on that account less zealous for the good name of Harvard, set themselves the strictly academic task of reporting to the world at large on a part of the University which has sought to attract the attention of the public...
...Lampoon, ever since the war, has been flirting with the idea that it ought to be a grown-up humorous publication, rather than the Harvard Lampoon. The temptation is constant, with all college journalists, to ape the fashions of their seniors, oblivious of the fact that those same seniors would be the first to change their own ways to meet the wishes of a different clientele. This year's Lampoon board, by good luck or greater intelligence, has demonstrated that the Lampoon can do the thing which its editors want to accomplish, best, when they turn its attention to what...
...Lampoon's Business School Number is clever, funny--intensely so. It is even funny after it becomes apparent that Lampy is serious. That he is serious there can be no doubt, although he says that, "The present issue is no more than the expression of a mood." His real attitude peeps through when he writes: "But let us decide before it is too late, the primary purpose of a university education...