Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon announces the election of Alan Russell Blackburn Jr. '29 of Boston and Roger Whedon '29 of Jamaica, New York, to the Literary Board, and of Richard Stedman Holden '29 of Bennington, Vermont, Harrison Lewis '29, of Beverly Hills, California, Edward Reynolds McPherison Jr. '29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Eugene Gilbert Kraetzer Jr. '29, of Lexington, Massachusetts, to the Business Board...
...Students' Room has been regularly supplied with seven publications, including the Lampoon and the CRIMSON...
...national pastime. Both the Princetonian and the CRIMSON hold unique positions in the diamond game in that neither outfit has ever lost a baseball encounter. So far as is known, the Princeton Tiger has never outscored the Princetonian in a full nine-inning game, and the CRIMSON-Lampoon diamond rivalry, although older than the catcher's mask and the rubber home plate, has yet to see the Mt. Auburn street nine victorious...
...investigation by Dr. Donald Gregg has brought to light the careers of over two hundred Lampoon editors subsequent to their abandonment of the task of tickling the undergraduate risibilities. Journalism and the law have claimed the greatest number of the college humorists, which would appear to indicate that the faculty of favile use, on abuse, of the English language determined the course into which these gentlemen directed their life efforts. Architecture, strangely enough, has attacked the next largest total, possibly, the four years of practice in reproducing the structural designs in the Yard created a mystic urge to imitate...
...Gregg remarks that with two editors in the Church, and two in the courts, the contribution of the Lampoon to these professions ceases. In an imposing array of exotic psychological terms he attempts to account for this defection. The real reason need not by shrouded in abstractions. From time immemorial, these professions have not been absent, from the stock, in trade of humorists. To remain consistent with their early merry selves, college humorists doubtless steer very clear of legal and ecclesiastical waters. Humorists may be a number of things, but they are not traitors...