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Construction isn’t the only drawback of Claverly life—the dorms are also in close proximity to the noisy headquarters of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Elaine Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cacophony Irks Clav Residents | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...With Clav, you eventually have to just get used to all the noise you hear—construction, talking, music, the Lampoon, and street noise, so it shouldn’t be too much of a problem,” said Omar M. Abdelsamad...

Author: By Elaine Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cacophony Irks Clav Residents | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

Comping: 1. Harvard-speak for the sometimes-competitive training process for joining a student group. 2. Still the only way to get on the staff of The Crimson, the Advocate, or the Lampoon...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...readings you missed; too bad no studying will ever occur here. 2. Home of the language lab for those suffering through the first-year foreign language requirement. 3. During reading period, you will spend hours here surfing Facebook.com and watching Sam Teller ’08 climb on desks. Lampoon: 1. A semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. 2. Gang of emaciated white males who amuse themselves writing penis jokes and starting fires inside their castle. 3. Campus virgin support center...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

DIED. Robert Hoffman, 59, sharp-witted former Coca-Cola executive and philanthropist who in 1969, along with two fellow Harvard students, co-founded the pioneering satirical magazine National Lampoon; of leukemia; in Dallas. The magazine, an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon, took wry, sometimes outrageous jabs at the rich and famous. In a photo essay it once posited that Richard Nixon, then serving his first term in office, was in fact dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 4, 2006 | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

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