Word: papered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lampoon, when it would have been a distinct disadvantage to all but the sleepless at the Infirmary, but during the past few months, I think, we have all welcomed extra pages. This time the twelve additional pages of reading matter not to mention the new advertisements--make the paper just long enough to carry us joyously through the intermissions at the Game, to add the spice of laughter to our content or to lighten--but the Lampoon nowhere suggests gloom...
...said that when the drawing for the frontispiece arrived the editors sat in speechless joy for an entire evening in their sanctum. Certainly Mr. Flagg, an honorary editor of the paper, has done a brilliant piece of work that sets a high standard for the drawings. And almost all are good, some very funny in themselves, some admirably illustrating the verses that accompany them. The caricatures are excellent, especially the clever pictorial review of the Blue Bird. The whole number, however, overflows with a good, healthy, fantastic humor. It never descends into profundity, is not boastful as some Yale Game...
Essays must not exceed 5,000 words and must be written (preferably type-written) on one side of plain paper of ordinary letter size. Each contestant should append to his essay a list of books consulted, with specific references if possible...
...manuscripts must be original, typewritten on one side of the paper, and accompanied by stamped, addressed envelopes...
...clock bell, are unusually good, and the one entitled "An Opportunity" urges its suggestions so ably that one wishes that it might have been written in the days of the Advocate's past before some of the Harvard architecture had been called into its dreadful being. Mr. Sibley's paper outlines a method of spreading Harvard influence through the West without seeming unpleasantly officious. The play reviews are decidedly entertaining, but unequal, and in each case the reviewer has curiously reflected the actual language of the performance he witnessed. Thus the language of the reviews of "The Blue Bird...