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...Mansfield questioned Summers' appropriateness as the Harvard mascot...
...ibis, also known by his Latin name Ibis Threskiornis, was soldered to the onion-shaped dome of the Lampoon building. After the bird's reappearance in November, the fun-loving Lampoon dispatched its lawyer to retrieve the ibis from The Crimson, and the newspaper eventually agreed to return the mascot in time for the magazine's 125th anniversary celebration in early February...
This contracting population serves as further evidence of Yale's descent into a medieval state. Evidence of the school's sad decay is ubiquitous: Yale's Gothic spires mark centuries of cultural decline; its students venerate the relics of Handsome Dan, the bulldog mascot whose decaying corpse is still on display in Yale's Peabody Museum; its cults adopt the archaic nomenclature of Spizzwinks, Wiffenpoofs and the Skull and Bones. (W., leave the room...
This weekend's football game against Columbia drew 6,721 spectators. A crowd of 67 people for a midweek tussle at Blodgett Pool would be surprising. You probably won't see the John Harvard mascot at many of the team's games, either, but the occasional crazed roommate armed with either a cowbell or a flag helps to fill that void...
Even though the words New York are in front of their name, the Mets are not urban. In fact, they are the hokiest team in baseball. Their mascot is some horror-movie reject with a smiling baseball for a head, cleverly named Mr. Met. When a Met hits a home run, a sizable, but not actually big, apple bobs up from something that looks like a magician's hat. The stadium opens in centerfield to display a huge, distant U-Haul sign. Airplanes from neighboring La Guardia Airport fly overhead every other inning. Then there is a poor approximation...