Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate of Princeton and as a second year man in the Law School of Harvard. I would appreciate the opportunity given me by the use of your columns to offer one or two criticisms to the editorial board of the Lampoon...
Speaking as a Princeton man, I regret to see the Lampoon or any other small coterie of Harvard undergraduates attempt to act as self-appointed spokesmen for the undergraduate body as a whole. Why there should be this feeling against Princeton, I do not know. Even if such a feeling exists, why it should be stirred up and encouraged by Harvard, I do not know. And granted even that it exists and should be aired in an effort to clarify matters. I do not know any reason why the airing should be done by the Lampoon rather than by others...
...recent relations between Harvard and Princeton have been marked by a plethora of heat and a paucity of light. The basis of friction between certain groups in both universities lies deeper than the two Princeton, game issues of the Lampoon. The Crimson editorial of yesterday should make this a it closed incident. Friends can afford to be frank, only hypocrites need resort to simulation. In a spirit of mutual respect and absolute candor let us examine the cause of this unfortunate illfeeling and assess it in its true light. I believe that the chief causes of the present situation...
...dispute was raging at Yale, they sent down to New Haven on special trucks an edition of the CRIMSON in which they told Yale just what ought to be done about it. Saturday, with Princeton as their guest, they distributed at the gates of their Stadium copies of the Lampoon, in which they expressed their opinion of Princeton, and a most unsavory opinion...
...Once again, we doubt that the Lampoon view is Harvard's, but we shall not feel positive until Father John himself has disclaimed the insinuations advanced by his callow off-spring. Princeton by no means feels that it is necessary at further cost to its dignity, to preserve the 'Big Three'." Daily Princetonian...