Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes a painful duty to speak of something which has been apparent ever since the rumpus over the Princeton number: What the Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. It is doubtful whether light poetry has ever been published which was as bad as this. 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 springly than oafish malice...
...does this bear on the general question of the Lampoon's activities? It bears hard indeed. The things which the Lampoon tries to do are not in themselves offensive; but they must be done well or they cannot be done at all. 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 in public without his breeches. The Lampoon has no official connection with the university; it is published by students...
...content with the Ibis bird, the Lampoon collected a menagerie for the week-end festivities incidental to their first barn dance. A turkey and a pig, were the guests of honor at the grand affair, thus breaking the ancient traditions, which admitted within the sacred precincts only humans, editors, and the Ibis himself...
...Ibis Nest--711 Mt. Auburn--The hottest place in town. And funny! Bob Lampoon, Texas Guinan's old side, kick is here with his own serenaders who record for Years and Years. And food! Just try the cellar of the Ibis Nest, it's too good. Arthur, who was formerly with Inc and Inc. is now in charge. All the Princeton men go there...
That Princeton should have felt injured as the result of these policies, which lot her future schedule with Harvard uncertain, is unfortunate; but the manner and extent of the break were of her own choosing. A Harvard Lampoon editorial and murmurs of dirty football hardly entered into the situation except as the former furnished a convenient casus belli for the Princeton authorities. The breach was inevitable as long as Princeton insisted on being recognized as of equal importance with Yale, not can it be healed as long as this attitude prevails. However, the merits of the controversy are of small...