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Just 50 years ago this month there appeared on the Harvard campus the first issue of the Harvard Lampoon, the prolific forebear of all the other college comics and of "Life." From this tiny prank of several Harvard Seniors in the year 1876 have sprung at least two mighty magazines, a hundred college comics, and a profitable industry engaged in the democratization of humor originating on college greens and in smoky offices of college comics. Certainly Lampy did not anticipate such an outcome of its modest first issue, admittedly the only one planned at the time. But the good idea...
...merrie England" did have a sense of humor, and that man was the very imaginative and reverend. Father Ronald Knox, radio broadcaster extraordinary. Although this is a rather conclusive indictment of English humor, few Americans would answer for the unanimity of laughter, if such a prank were played in Boston...
...have driven for six years and never harmed even a chicken or a rabbit. My record is clean, and I have been humiliated and insulted by the Government, not for any wrong, but because I thought the signal of a kiddish' looking Secret Service man was the prank of a small boy, I missed the President by twenty feet...
Dorothy Gish 1,004 Lillian Gish 36,967 George W. Goethals 2,719 Prank Jay Gould 196,813 E. H. R. Green (son of Hetty).... 222,712 Walter Hampden 2,718 Will Hays 10,234 Howard Heintz 191,374 Myron T. Herreck 6,929 John Hertz (Yellow Taxi) 8,316 Mrs. John Hertz 5,215 Alanson B. Houghton 32,404 Charles E. Hughes 1,554 Mayor Hylan 0 Al Jolson 33,744 Otto H. Kahn 391,776 Rudyard Kipling 4,998 Sebastian S. Kresge (5 & lOc Stores) 188,608 William B. Leeds 57,445 Florence Pullman Lowden...
...much of it that was quite honestly funny, and the whole of it was done in a free-hearted spirit not always appreciated by those who, like your reviewer, take this world very seriously. After all, why look for blasphemies and insults to good people in an undergraduate prank...