Word: mortgagees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Crimson, dignified Harvard daily, printed an explanation to the effect that a mortgage on the Lampoon's building had been foreclosed by the University authorities, and that the building would become a dining hall in the Harkness project.
Criticism characterized as "unwarrantedly impudent", "more of the sensationalism that caused the Princeton break", and, "of extremely poor taste," has brought about the foreclosing of the heavy mortgage which the editors of the oldest college comic sheet have carried for years and which nearly caused the bankruptcy of the paper...
Just recently the University appropriated a fraction of Mr. Harkness' gift of over $11,000,000 to buy up the mortgage on the Lampoon from Isaac Coolidge Ginsberg, of the North Cambridge Holdings Company. So badly has the Lampoon fallen in recent years, that the sandwich man hired yesterday by...
When questioned last night, the president of the Lampoon said that he was extremely surprised to hear that Mr. Ginsberg had sold the mortgage to the College, but declared that "if his college wanted the Lampoon Building, it was not for him or his aides to stand in the way...
It is understood that yesterday's developments were brought to their culmination only by the action of the Lampoon itself. The attitude of the University towards the Lampoon, it was learned, was one of indifferent quiescence as long as the Lampoon held to innocuous humor, but when the straw that...