Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then at last some smart feller on the Lampoon found the way out. He'd make it so unpleasant for Princeton to come up to Cambridge to play football that the Tigers would sever relations of their own accord, avoiding Harvard the embarrassment...
...average Lampoon of this year compares more than favorably with the national humorous weeklies. It seems unbelievable that the Boston number should have caused offence. If it did if is a good proof that some of the residents of the Back Bay were much in need of hearing a little humor at their expense...
...following review of the January number of the Lampoon was written for the Crimson of R. L. Raymond, Jr., '24, and instructor of English in the University...
Ever since the Princeton debacle and the fact twitting comparison of a Boston debutante dance to the auction block, the arrival of a new issue of the Lampoon has been awaited nervously by an those who live in glass houses. People cannot seem to stand having fun poked at them. And now there's more bits of intra-mural irreverence in the January number which cannot but cause offense to members of the Harvard faculty...
However all this may be, the humor in the new issue of the Lampoon is of a high order. The pictorial representation of "face lifting in the good old days" surpassed its prototype in life. Best of all is the psychology chapter of "A Popular History of Knowledge". The haphazard selection of "one of the lower forms of life" is the best sample of humor of the irrepressible type since Mark Twain asserted that he was not superstitious, but he always did hate to sleep thirteen...