Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Horace E. Scudder will address the Historical Society to-morrow evening in 7 Hollis. His paper will be on the fund left by Benjamin Franklin for school purposes in Boston and Philadelphia. This fund now amounts to about...
There will be an important business meeting of the Philosophical Club tonight at 7.30 at 41 Weld. Mr. J. B. Fletcher, '87, will read a paper on "The Conscience...
...paper is a college paper and should retain its character as such, and not aim to be a cheap copy of a paper that has no more originality or excellence than is found in Life...
Over ten years ago The Lampoon was established as a regular publication. The paper had a character of its own, distinct from that of any paper ever published. It was an original production and soon made its way to popularity and fame. Its editorials were keenly humorous, and its jokes and "binds" were fresh and original, having few "chestnuts" among them. The pictures for the first few years were rough. The artists took less care with their work than those who came later, and the process of printing, etc., was more crude than it is to-day. Nevertheless the pictures...
...full-page pictures disappeared and small society pictures with jokes (?) that would fit any one of them equally well, were substituted instead. Finally, to complete the destruction of its ancient character, the Lampoon's cover was changed into a cheap copy of that of Life. In fact, the whole paper is apparently aiming to reproduce a Lampoonized edition of Life, its style of pictures, its jokes (?) and its clippings. Why the Lampoon, which was the father of Life, and in former days was conceded to be its superior in originality and wit, if not in the execution of its pictures...