Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Alumni Weekly in its current issue takes advantage of the celebration of the Lampoon's fiftieth anniversary to insert the following laudatory words...
...Certainly, to an outsider, the Harvard Lampoon is more that a humorous magazine," says the article, "it is an individuality. If it is a solemn undertaking to become a Harvard undergraduate, the Lampoon eases the yoke; if the Harvard undergraduate gets too serious, the Lampoon holds up a mirror to him. Satire and good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average editorial. The college humorous paper that is content to remain merely...
...place that the Harvard Lampoon has held among American undergraduate publications comes again to public attention through the death of John T. Wheelwright, Harvard '76, one of its founders. Mr. Wheelwright was not only one of the Lampoon's original editors; throughout his life he was a member of a group that continually worked for its success and, strange as it will seem to Yale undergraduate ears, returned ex-officio to its staff as "literary editor" when forty-two years out of college, his help carrying the magazine through the difficult publishing days following the war. Here in coed...
...Lampoon announced last night the election of its officers for the coming year...
With every fiddler in New England clamoring for a chance to wrest the crown from champion Mellie Dunham, Bob Lampoon, honorary editor of the Lampoon, veteran piccolo player, has signified his willingness to match tunes with the Maine player. Bob claims to have over one hundred different pieces, where Mellie has only three or four, but the piccolo player declares that with a little practice he can become profficient in "Turkey in the Straw" and "Old Zip Coon" as well...