Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years after graduation as to prompt Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis, Harvard 1911, to publish a pessimistic portrayal of his classmates' aspirations and accomplishments (Was College Worth While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon as an undergraduate. For First Marshal, the Class of 1911 elected former President Herbert Jaques of the U. S. Golf Association. Few of 1911 got rich, fewer still Author Tunis judged to have won "genuine distinction" (TIME, Sept. 14). Up for scrutiny this year stand 536 Harvardmen of the Class...
Noyes, who as an undergraduate was "Ibis" of the Lampoon and an editor of the CRIMSON, spent the last two years in Iran as architect to the Persepolis expedition of the Oriental Institute...
Noticing the prostrate form, students thought that it had something to do with the Lampoon and would probably squeak or something if they touched it, so they avoided...
...troubles besetting the "Monthly" is what appears to be a confusion of motives in the minds of its sponsors. The aim of publishing a current review of topics interesting to Harvard men deserves a spirited rendition of "Wintergreen". It touches the weakest spot in the armour of "Lampoon" and "Advocate" partisans. The "funnyman" makes no more mature interpretation than youthful jollity and a liberal allowance of beer can produce, while the muses of the "Advocate" often walk too high on literary Helicon for the vulgar population to follow them. Yet if the intended sacrifice of intellectuality to readability...
Nathaniel G. Benchley '38 was chosen President of the Lampoon this week. Other officers elected were Robert O. Easton '38, the new Ibis; Nicholas Satterlee '38, Narthex; and William A. Evans, Jr. '38, Secretary...