Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon rarely demands reflection on the part of its readers. Its accustomed function is to amuse, to satirize, even to irritate, but seldom to provoke serious thought. Beneath the parody surface of the current "Protest of the Masses" number, however, there is much that can neither be ignored nor dismissed with an indulgent shrug...
...work of art this issue deserves first rank in Lampoon annals. In it the grumbled protests, the soured ambitions, and the hushed scandals that have been rife in dormitory "bull sessions" for the past decade find classic expression. Adopting the style of communistic propaganda, typified by "The New Masses", the Lampoon has done bitter battle with every abuse, real or imagined, of Harvard life...
...understood that yesterday's developments were brought to their culmination only by the action of the Lampoon itself. The attitude of the University towards the Lampoon, it was learned, was one of indifferent quiescence as long as the Lampoon held to innocuous humor, but when the straw that broke the camel's back, in the form of Lampy's most recent indiscretions entered the situation, the college authorities reached the conclusion that, foreclosure of the mortgage was the only action compatible with Harvard dignity...
...Lampoon building is admirably adapted for an eating hall, for it contains an excellently appointed large room, with culinary equipment in Arthur's restaurant in the basement. The president's office, it is understood, will be used as a cloakroom for the inhabitants of the "Gold Coast House". According to present plans, the University will incorporate Claverly, Randolph, and possibly Russell, into one House. What disposition will be made of Benjamin Hyte's tailoring shop has not yet been announced. Bob Lampoon, for so many years the power-behind-the-throne and genuis of all Lampoon wit will be accepted...
Last night, as another development of the situation, six editors of the Lampoon reported at the CRIMSON Building when the University daily opened its competition to Sophomores and Freshmen