Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained by the Yard cops whose home office swells the basement of Grays. With the aid of the Tutors in History and Liturature and the Cercle Francais they discovered the animals in the apartments of J. O. Whedon '27, President, and De Witt Endicott '28, prominent member of the Lampoon...
There gentlemen were quick to explain that this was not an old Lampoon custom but a Christmas present. Whedon, when interviewed, declined to comment, but Bob Lampoon, who was appointed guinea guardian extraordinary, suggested that this was not a surprise in so much as the Lampoon had been keeping birds of one feather or another for some time...
...Senior Dormitory Committee is holding office hours at the Lampoon Building daily from two to three o'clock, and will give out any desired information concerning rooms for next year's Senior class...
...What the Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. . . . The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more sprightly than oafish malice. . . . It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing...
Harvard men gave thanks that the Lampoon's rebuke had come, since it had to come, from fond, dutiful brothers and not from a stranger without the gates; from the Harvard-manned if not Harvardized World rather than from, say, the New York Herald Tribune, whereof the dominant figure is, of course, Owner-Editor Ogden Mills Reid, Yale '04 (and a vigorous alumnus, especially in everything appertaining to water polo), one of whose right-handiest men is City Editor Robert Cresswell, famed Princetonian ('19) ; or from some underling of disaffected and disapproved Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Harvard...