Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life, after all, is but a succession of surprises, a concatenation of cataclysms-so the CRIMSON is not as disconcerted by the sudden demise of Harvard's humorous periodical-the Lampoon-as it would be had it less experience in the ways of the world. Yet in a university so much a part of American tradition the death of any particularly notorious feature of university life must occasion serious and thoughtful comment...
...fill the poor working girl. Yes, I was surprised to see so many young college women in the place--and was quite delighted. A study in contrasts--or are they--is always amusing. Especially when two of those burly brothers in blue--the kind that read the Lampoon begin to extract certain indiscrete yeomen from the crowded mist. Oh! for a maestro to paint the Georgian at evening. What a work, what a glorious achievement for any artist. "Aw, come on, big boy, you're wanderin'. Lay off the bowkays. Spring aient here...
Just 50 years ago this month there appeared on the Harvard campus the first issue of the Harvard Lampoon, the prolific forebear of all the other college comics and of "Life." From this tiny prank of several Harvard Seniors in the year 1876 have sprung at least two mighty magazines, a hundred college comics, and a profitable industry engaged in the democratization of humor originating on college greens and in smoky offices of college comics. Certainly Lampy did not anticipate such an outcome of its modest first issue, admittedly the only one planned at the time. But the good idea...
...only the magazine itself was copied; the whole idea of the Harvard publication was transferred to other campuses. As the Lampoon had its dinners before each issue appeared, so the other comics established their dinners, breakfasts and parties. Even the annual, traditional, and supposedly original Sun Window baseball game had its origin in the Harvard Crimson-Lampy game...
...50th anniversary, for it has produced a number of great humorists. It has been freely and closely copied all over the country, not only by other college comics, but as well by the regular humorous magazines. For example, the first burlesque of another magazine was published by the Lampoon. Other burlesques have since been published by practically every American humorous magazine of any sort...