Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...over by W. G. Saltonstall '28, president of the Phillips Brooks House. The speakers will be: C. C. Abbott '28, president of the Advocate; W. C. Atwater '28, president of the University Glee Club; H. C. Bartlett '28, president of the CRIMSON: C. F. Fawsett '28, president of the Lampoon: W. A. Magie '28, football manager, and C. A. Pratt '28, captain of the football team. Each of these men will give a brief talk outlining the activities of the particular organization which he represents...
...graduate; but he there learned much not in the curriculum. Pouring over the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, he learned much that Joseph Pulitzer knew and suspected things Joseph Pulitzer had never thought of. Working as business manager and later as managing editor of the Harvard Lampoon, Mr. Hearst first sniffed the?to so many?drug of printer's ink. What is more important he made the Lampoon...
Less than 40 years ago the Harvard "Lampoon" held undisputed sway in the field of college humor. With only one rival, the Columbia "Spectator", the wits from Mt. Auburn Street could boast a circulation and a reputation which was without equal. Then into the Cambridge jester's existence of placid dignity and lonely rule was suddenly hurled a disturbing, challenging bolt in the form of the first Princeton "Tiger...
...field in the form of the Princeton 'Tiger': and although no judgement can fairly be made from a single number, and that a first issue, it seems likely that the 'Tiger' may prove itself some time a rival by no means to be despised. Naturally we doubt if the 'Lampoon' is in any imminent danger of being surpassed by either the 'Spectator' or the 'Tiger', but a healthy and friendly emulation can do no harm, and may result in a considerable improvement in all three...