Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following review of the current Lampoon was written for the Crimson by an editor of the Advocate. In the usual Advocate manner, he signs himself with one of the names chosen from the Advocate's communal stock, Montgomery Higginson...
There is a sort of humor, somewhat fantastic pleasantly inconsequential, of which the undergraduate is a past master. The Lampoon often indulges in it, we know, especially, it would seem late in May. Perhaps the Ibis has been well assuaged with strawberries, or has found the evenings along the Charles pleasing, in any case, his satire is not barbed and he passes by, smiling slightly, as if he realized how absurb college becomes before the June cataclysm...
...great fault with the Lampoon editorials, we have always thought, is the excellence of the little initial vignettes that introduce them. In stopping to admire their designs we inevitably forget to read the subject matter, and presently pass on to see whether there is more good drawing in the body of the paper. As a rule there is not, though inevitably the illustrations have a certain flair. There are one or two bad spots, this time, especially the various essays at horses, but on the whole the drawings seem fairly creditable. The page by Wood...
...Lampoon, pitching with the fervor and skill of years' experience reached great heights, not to mention the home plate, with the pitch of excellence. But the legion of CRIMSON bats was as impenetrable as the Old Howard on Saturday night and victory perched not upon the Ibis's bough...
Umpire: Dube. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Crimson 9 6 7 3 4 7 1 6 -- 23 Lampoon...