Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really believed that story you printed Saturday about the Lampoon Building being made into a dining hall...
...held at the Harvard Liberal Club, 66 Winthrop Street, at 7 o'clock tonight. H. M. Fox '28, president of the Club, will preside at the meeting, which will be open to all members of the University. Special invitations have been sent to prominent undergraduates, including members of the Lampoon and CRIMSON boards and the Harvard Student Council...
...sweeping a denunciation is not intended, of course, for undiscriminating consumption. Much of it will not find serious support in the Lampoon Building itself; even more must be discarded by the careful critic. But the CRIMSON does believe that its Mt. Auburn Street colleague has either reopened or brought to the surface discussion on several issues of the first importance...
...most prominent object of the Lampoon attack is the House Plan. The CRIMSON has already made its opposition to this plan, as outlined so far by University authorities, sufficiently clear to render lengthy discussion here unnecessary. Briefly it considers the present social organization of Harvard College, allowing as it does every student unlimited range and absolute freedom to choose and change his associates, greatly preferable to any forced melting pot scheme such as that envisaged by the House Plan. It has been unable to discover, more-over, educational advantages of the new arrangement which might offset this loss in social...
While denunciation of the House Plan may be the most evident point of the Lampoon's current attack, it is by no means the only, nor the most essential one. Far more vital to the future educational efficiency of Harvard is the course its teaching policies are to follow. The Lampoon has found in present conditions of instruction material for a twofold protest. On the one hand it expresses strong disapproval of the type of training demanded by such examinations as that given at mid-years in English 32, and on the other it decries the great intercollegiate race...