Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunities that exist as pleasant as possible. Princeton sends a large number of its men to the graduate departments of Harvard each year: in the Law School its graduates rank in number second only to those of Harvard itself. I cannot see that the last number of the Lampoon will have any visible effects on the friendship existing between Harvard and Princeton graduate students, but it does seem a dubious method of encouraging it. We in the Law School have heard of Burke's saying that, "Law sharpens the mind must be narrowing while we are here...
...conclusion, I wish to assure the Lampoon board that, although my copy was bought (on the way to the game) rather than borrowed, I do not demand my money back. There was a so-called quip in the issue about a man having a quarter and not knowing whether to buy "Snappy Stories" or the "Tiger", and the newsdealer replying. "Aw, what's the matter with the quarter anyhow?" I cannot help but wonder whether the writer didn't foresee my paying my quarter for the Lampoon. Of course there was no question of comparing the Lampoon to "Snappy Stories...
...When the Lampoon blows its, yearly bubble...
Those who have strolled along what is often called the Gold Coast, in deference to an orchestra of that name and the fact that Arthur's Inc. is a great success, may have noticed that the Ibis tree, so recently brought to America from the Netherplaces by Robert Lampoon, Esquire has, within the last few days, been sawed in twain by some George Washington who needs to be debunked. Nor is the CRIMSON happy to see this happen...
True as it is that the Lampoon stands too often in its own shade to need the help of such a sapling, there is a limit to vandalism and that, in the philodendronic sense, is the bark or outer periphery of an Ibis tree. The poor old Ibis has done enough to hurt her breed in the last few days without becoming dispossessed of her perch upon the Ibis bough. Unlike Horace who was quite selfish when his famous tree fell, the CRIMSON worries more about the tree than the fact that its fall hurt no one but the reputation...