Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interview yesterday, Gluyas Williams '11, renowned cartoonist and illustrator, was most enthusiastic in his praise of the training afforded aspiring artists and writers through the medium of college publications. Williams drew for the Lampoon while an undergraduate at Harvard and attributes the inspiration for his present career to that experience...
...think that the recent action of the Lampoon editors in printing their "Protest of the Masses" issue brings to the fore one of the big arguments in favor of the House Plan," said Dr. Clarence Cook Little '10, retiring president of Michigan University in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...went on to say that he thought the situation created by the publication of the issue was one which the House Plan would remedy. "The action of the Lampoon editors shows that the men are in need of more mature minds in their midst, to prevent them from repeating things of that nature. The trustees who threatened to resign are in the right, for as overseers they can force the issue and make the Lampoon retract...
Does the Harvard Lampoon hit too hard, or are academic communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...
Objections to the Lampoon's satire are mainly that it is in poor taste, Quite possibly. But what is at issue here is something more vital than any question of taste; more vital than the respect unquestionably due Mr. Harkness for his munificent gift; more vital even than the "House Plan" of instruction. What is at issue here is the right of undergraduates to think for themselves, and to criticize the educational experiments of which they themselves are to be the subject matter. Their strictures may be ridiculously conservative. Undergraduate opinion usually is. But independent thinking must begin somewhere...