Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This review of the Christmas Lampoon was written for the Crimson by George Parker Winship '93, Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Library...
...Lampoon extends its Christmas greetings within a cover on which Saunders has successfully emphasized the festive season without a hint of mistletoe or the bearded ancient, and barely a touch of green and red, distinctly an achievement. There are signs of an earnest effort to give the rest of the issue both text and pictures, the same seasonal flavor, but with an indifferent result which suggests that there may be some foundation for the persistent reports that nobody is getting into the proper mood this December...
...full-page cartoon by Child is likely to be widely copied, not because it is as good a piece of drawing as the Lampoon has shown in many months, but because it is one of the neatest gibes at the prevailing craze that has yet appeared. Facing this is its nearest rival in this issue, whose own chief excellence is that it offers infinite possibilities, in style of treatment and in the heading. "Nursery Rhymes Retold", for a series of pictures hitting off an indefinite number of people and things within sight of Harvard Square...
...four pages far above the common ken; Mr. Elliott contributes a story; and there are a few pallid lyrics. But, all in all, the number is a decided success; in fact, it nearly equals the almost forgotten days when the writer was an undergraduate of the College, when the Lampoon was very young, and the worthy paper in whose columns this review is printed lay, a charming infant, mewling against the hirstute breast of her fond and indulging parent, the Harvard Advocate...
Carrol J. Swan '01 will act as toast-master at the luncheon which will follow a short business session this morning. The speakers who are to make informal talks are W. W. Scott '25, president of the Lampoon. J. T. Wheelright '76, Professor W. W. Prescott of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, P. M. Hollister '13, Professor G. P. Winship '93, R. K. Leavitt '17, Captain Guiseppe Marino, James Montgomery Flagg, C. C. Peirce, J. R. Chandler '01, C. C. Gilman, H. S. McDevitt, George Britt and Gluyas Williams '11. After the luncheon, the various committees will convene...