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Cambridge Fire officials, panicked by incessant threats--which they attributed to the Lampoon--to make off with their engine and drive it to New Orleans instead of Kenosha, dispatched their armor-plated apparatus 24 hours ahead of schedule. City Councillor John D. Lynch, however, claimed last night that the six Radcliffe girls abroad caused the early departure...
Police cruisers guarded the city's Public Works garage all night Thursday as mechanics prepared the fire engine for its 1100-mile safari. Numerous phone calls warned the fire officials that the Lampoon was planning to abscond with the engine and, according to one official, threatened "to keep it longer than we kept the Codfish out of the State House...
Fire department personnel guarding the damaged engine said that they anticipated a Lampoon attempt to sabotage the trip, and had been warned to "keep all Harvard students away from the pumper." Police officials guarding the engine said that the fire department had requested police protection because it could not cope with the situation any longer...
...mark the restoration, a Harvard-Yale jousting meet should be scheduled, highlighted by the coronation of President Pusey. He, in turn, would create an order of knighthood among the professors, with teaching fellows and instructors as squires and pages. During the celebrations, the Jester and Fools of the Lampoon might even be entertaining. Such romance and pageantry would finally justify the restoration of that awesome structure--Memorial Hall...
...Lampoon again entered the much abused field of parody and satire of Harvard institutions with a remarkably polished publication entitled Mondays at Nine or Pedagogues On Parade. Paul Brooks '32 and T. Graydon Upton '31 contributed a great deal of consistently fine and funny light verse. Carl E. Pickhardt's '31 caricatures of famous professors of that era--Barret Wendell, Charles T. Copeland, Irving Babbit, George Santayana, and G. L. Kittredge--are excellent drawings in the style of Sir Max Beerbohm. Part of the verse that accompanies the caricature of Kittredge follows...