Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such that the local officers of the law must intervene to prevent the college from becoming a mere institution of corruption, action is truly imperative. This last publication of the Brockton Blimp is too much. It is fair to expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp takes it upon itself to break Brookton tradition...
When informed of this fact, S. D. Richards '27, Business Manager of the now defunct paper, expressed no surprise. "We have all expected this for a long time", he said. "But after all the joke is not on us. We have had free use of the building for 17 years. What more could...
...surprised to notice a for sale sign hung before Lampy's famous turret. You can understand my surprise when I tell you that as a former editor of the Lampoon no hint or rumor had reached my ears of the impending financial disaster which has overtaken this ancient comic paper...
Upon reaching my home in Water town I immediately got in touch with Mr. Whedon, President of the paper until its dissolution, and members of the Graduate Advisory Committee. I was deeply chagrined at their confirming the fact that the Lampoon building was for sale, and that the famous organization had issued its last publication...
Good books go through their grand editions only to end their existence on poor stalls in poorer covers. Good plays suffer a somewhat similar fate. They too have the grand vellum of Broadway about them for a time until, eclipsed by newer rivals, they are forced to the cheap paper covers of the world of stock. Such a play is "Outward Bound". Other attempts at histrionic ethics and metaphysics have sent Sutton Vane's play into the limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell...