Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Former Lampoon editors are naturally a little diffident about donning the motley, even under the stirring inspiration of a "Graduates' Dinner." So we are able to understand why the Old Graduates number of the Lampoon has more from the group which is neither Graduate nor Old than from the Elders...
Lampy played the jovial host last evening to graduates, honorary members, all the deans from University Hall, President Lowell, and many more. The Graduates' Dinner, with its distinguished guests, is the Lampoon's most festive of occasions...
...Lampoon special supplement for the Graduates Dinner announcement is made of a $1500 Foreign Scholarship to be awarded to the Senior editor with the most deserving artistic or literary merit to be used by him for residence abroad to improve his art. The principle object of this proposal-now an actuality--is to induce the editors to cooperate with each other constantly so that the paper will be contributed to more by editors than by those seeking to be editors. The selection will be made by a Graduate Committee from a list of names proposed by the Undergraduate Board...
Commenting to a CRIMSON reporter on the scholarship, Mr. J. T. Wheelwright '76, a member of the original Lampoon Board, said, "It isn't a scholarship: it's a prize to make the standard of the paper increase. 'Life' cannot afford to run itself on contributions pushed in under the door, and neither can Lampy...
Heywood Broun is coming and is slated to make a speech together with some of the representatives of the College and J. T. Wheelwright '76, one of the first editors of the Lampoon. E. S. Martin '77, another of the founders will also be present. A. K. Moe '97, a well known artist will come and has contributed to the Graduates' Number...