Word: lampooning
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After this, the whisperers turned against the Lampoon, announcing that its mortgage was to be foreclosed and that the Old Lampoon Building would be used as a dining room in the new House system. 'Poon President Alan Blackburn answered the attacks with a famous "Revolt of the Masses" issue which eventually provoked a personal apology to donor Harkness from the comic magazine...
...Crimson mile relay team of V. L. Hennessey '30, F. E. Cummings '30, Vernon Munroe '31, and E. E. Record '32 set a Triangular Meet record of 3:20.6. Also in the record-setting class, cyclists A. T. Gray '30 and K. G. Pender '30 pedalled from the Lampoon to New York in something just over 24 hours to establish another record--of sorts...
Most of the spring's activities centered around the Lampoon. After the Ibis had been annually stolen, the comic organization published its Tercentenary number, which was followed with threat of a suit from Boston Mayor James Curley...
...Curley, alias J. Crookyde," and mentioned that the mayor "left jail to serve another term as mayor." 'Poon President Paul Brooks '31 hastily rushed to offer the magazine's apologies to the mayor. The mayor, because of "the complete and abject apology of the president of the Harvard Lampoon, in view of his extreme youth and the effect that court proceedings might have on his future . . .," accepted the apologies...
Another publication, the Lampoon, made matters worse with a cutting editorial. Many Princetonians were convinced that Harvard was chafing under the humiliation of recent athletic defeats and that the Crimson's apparently patronizing attitude had gone too far. Suddenly, on Armistice Day, athletic relations between the two universities were severed: Princeton Professor C. W. Kennedy wrote to Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 that "Competition carried on in an atmosphere of suspicion and ill will of necessity falls short of the desirable objective of intercollegiate sports. Under these circumstances, we prefer to discontinue competition with Harvard altogether...