Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first meeting of a CRIMSON board and tonight's gathering in the Sanetum. The intervening fifty-two years have been filled with journalistic alarums and excursions for generations of editors. Financial, catastrophes, tiffs with athletic teams, brushes with the authorities, and open warfare with impious editors of the Lampoon have all lent color to the CRIMSON'S lengthening past...
Cambridge still lacks, however, a beacon at one most important intersection--the blind corner by Jimmie's Lampoon Lunch, where Plympton Street, one of the chief means of local egress from the Metropolitan Parkway, crosses the Mt. Auburn Street artery. The collision which occurred there last evening was trifling, but it is only the long arm of coincidence that has as yet kept the crossing from being the scene of a really tragic accident. This possibility undergraduate drivers realize and they generally approach with some caution, a habit which the majority of passers, either through negligence or ignorance, never acquire...
...suppressed issue of the Lampoon has apparently stimulated a keen interest in art among students. This fact was revealed by the number of men who have visited the Coop recently to obtain copies of the picture which played a large part in the suppression of the Lampoon...
...Coop, the print goes under the number E 156. The original painting, which is by Manet, now hangs in the Luxembourg, and is entitled "Olympia." The subject is a nude, couchant, and differs from the Lampoon representation in that it is minus the wine-glass and the horrid leer with which the humorous artist embellished...
...that the tumult and shouting has died down, and the suppression of the Advocate and the Lampoon has become a recognized fact, it might be well to look at the situation from the attitude that the college authorities took in this affair. Many agree that the action of the police was mischievous and unwarranted in both cases, but whereas the Lampoon was a clean and clever satire, the Advocate was scarcely so commendable a publication to outsiders. This, if ever, would have been the occasion for the interference of University authorities. But the dean's office, holding to its traditional...