Word: lampooning
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...rainy and cold outside the Lampoon last night, yet someone had left the castle door open, so I went in. Inside it smelled rather damp, but at least it wasn't raining, and from the dimly lighted room to the left came the reek of beer and the sound of conversation. "The meeting for competitors is through that door," a shadowy, beerdrinking figure said. "It's just begun...
...admirably supported by an unusually talented cast. Cecil Parker and Michael Gough hilariously lampoon the stolidity of a pair of English industrialists without being in the least unkind or unlikable. And shapely Joan Greenwood is absolutely perfect as the rebellious daughter of the industrialist who employs our hero. She manages to portray the peaches and cream English type wanting to make a nest, yet at the same time a delightfully seductive sophisticate. One of the best minor roles in the film is carried by Vera Hope as a stalwart and outspoken labor organizer whose femininity shows through now and then...
...House Masters have final authority over who gets to do business in the College buildings and, so far as I know, enterprises connected with this corporation must apply to the University authorities, the same as any other student business, to gain permission. It is my impression that the CRIMSON, Lampoon, Advocate, WHRB, and other groups conduct businesses or services on University property also with the approval of the College authorities...
...eventually all undergraduates would be lodged in Houses. Few liked the idea. Students felt that their prized individualism, "completely self-wrought," would be taken away once they were forced to live and dine with a group of people chosen by Faculty members. The CRIMSON attacked the plan, and the Lampoon published a "Protest of the Masses Number" which heaped the full wrath of the Faculty and Administration upon its head. An apology to Mr. Harkness was demanded, and the 'Poonies, moaning that no one understood them, grudgingly gave it. Later, it was reported that the University was so angered...
Although he spent only one day at the University, it "was enough for me to feel some sense of Harvard," he said. He has learned "to hate Yale, to like Adlai Stevenson and the Democrats, to hate the Lampoon and to like the CRIMSON--I learn very quickly...