Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When dwellers on Mt. Auburn Street awoke yesterday morning to their customary activities, they were startied by the sight of the little en-caged elm, that grew so debonaire in front of the Lampoon's front steps, hanging over its bars, bent and broken...
...this solemn hour of intercollegiate "hate," the shaken soul finds comfort in that always calm old friend, the dictionary. "Lampoon" comes from "lampoons," let us drink. Liquor in Cambridge seems to have degenerated. Lampy's ancient humor has become mere billingsgate. Hollis Holworthy, that sometime mirror of correctness and savoir faire, has gone "mucker." To bedaub guests with insult was worthy of that curious taste. When one remembers such urbane Lampooners as the distinguished lawyer and sometime Ambassador who wrote "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," one is surprised by the difference of the modern tone. Such is the improving effect...
...Daily Princetonian waves the offending sheet away. But does it speak for Harvard? Dr. Hibben's scholars "want definite assurance that it doesn't. Princeton might have taken judicial notice that the Lampoon has bestowed "the coarse expectoration of its speech" as freely upon collegians and journals at Cambridge as upon the Nassavians. Who is to give assurances for Harvard? So far as we know, her graduates are friendly to Princeton. The rivalries of college newspapers at Cambridge are as notorious as the general contempt for most of them. Still, this attack of muckeritis is momentous The Princetonian darkly intimates...
...Lobarno perish and the League of Nations fall; but the Big Three must and shall be preserved. There will be conversations and negotiations about this high matter. If necessary, all Harvard graduates and undergraduates--barring the Lampoon squad--will sign a humble policy and remonstrance. Let us have peace and the game. And a pleasing little incident of Saturday's game with Cambridge was the capture of the Harvard goal posts by the conquerors. This is a common pastime of our intellectual youth. The combination of malicious mischief and larceny is irresistible to the academic mind. The Princetonian stand excused...
...tree, a gift of the late J. T. Wheelwright '76, founder of the Lampoon, was planted with great ceremony on the Jester's fiftieth anniversary about two years ago. Although carefully watched and watered by Bob Lampoon, it had not burgeoned up to expectation in the Gold Coast atmosphere, and there have been rumors that it was to be removed...