Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are too many good things in this special number to be adequately diagnosed. Off-hand, we'd say "The Game as Seen by the CRIMSON" and "General Information for Yale Visitors" were the funniest things in the book, but the laugh limit is by no means two. The prologue, too, stands out--not by reason of its prime position, but because it carries (as they say) a punch in every line. You can like the prologue whether or not you care for poetry. In fact the less you care for poetry the more you'll like the prologue...
...running the footballers. I think Mr. Haughtonstein is a good football coachman but he is no good for photographers. When I was up by the soldiers' field to get some action picture he had a lot of low life freshmen throw me out of the place. But the laugh is on him because I have been thrown out of a lot of better colleges since...
...back of that cover the burlesques run true to best form. The complete number, indeed, is successfully a pseudo-Cosmopolitan all over--except, perhaps, for the advertising pages. The page most certain to hand Lampy customers a laugh is its rotogravure of "A Parisian Beauty." Mr. Wilson himself, we are sure, would enjoy it for light reading in his current convalescence...
...well as students, Radcliffe as well as Harvard, and to discuss other than purely academic interests. Therefore, it is seven times welcome, and if in so new an essay it makes mistakes--as it surely will--seventy times seven to be forgiven. Its editors can well afford to laugh (and incidentally watch their pockets bulge) at pre-adolescent lucubrations in red and yellow. (How pat for anonymity that choice of colors...
...College by if such was the case it was stretching things rather far. It is not likely that such care could have been taken to have the satirical paper correspond so closely to the real one had sole purpose of the anonymous authors been to raise a laugh...