Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon also mentioned the "intrusive interest of Doctor Harkness. A $13,000,000 shot of cocaine that will whoop things-up for a while. But oh, God, what a morning after there will...
This time it was about Tycoon Edward Stephen Harkness, whose recent gift of $13,000,000 has made possible at Harvard an adaptation of the Oxford "inner, college" idea (TIME, Jan. 7). Sneered the Lampoon: "Now that Harkness has shelled a sufficient number of berries we have got to put on our glad rags and make him an A. M. or a LL. D., the way we did Baker [Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph. D.]. Becoming a Ph. D. is the same kind of business as getting yourself created...
...Lampoon's tradition is one of free speech, to the point of libel if need be. In 1925 its artist parodied Washington Crossing the Delaware so daringly that an issue of the Lampoon was barred from the U. S. mails. But the anti-Harkness issue seemed to transcend all Lampoon offenses against good taste and sense, and the reason for this seemed to be that the matter in hand was, for once, serious and tangible...
...part of the Fine Arts College embodied in Professor George Pierce Baker. Now another Harkness gift, declined by Yale, is going to refashion Harvard's most ancient and central aspect, oldtime Harvard College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment on the "inner college" plan The Lampoon also said the following...
...Crimson, dignified Harvard daily, printed an explanation to the effect that a mortgage on the Lampoon's building had been foreclosed by the University authorities, and that the building would become a dining hall in the Harkness project...