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...fantastic and amusing comedy, "Wurzel-Flummery", by A. A. Milne, editor of "Punch" and author of "Mr. Pun Passes By", will be the second of the trio. "Robert Crashaw", a dignified member of Parliament, played by F. DeN. Schroeder '24, is unexpectedly left a large sum of money, but under the condition that he should adopt the name "Wurzel-Flummery". To complicate matters his rival in Parliament, "Richard Meriton", played by R. T. Pell '24 is left an equal sum and under equal conditions. Miss Dorothy Somerset '21 of Radcliffe, as "Viola Crashaw", provides a happy solution to the problem...
Ready for battle under any condition last evening, the undaunted CRIMSON seven, in their newest bathing suits, awaited the delinquent joke-heavers. Be it recorded to the shame of the pun-producers that their noble opponents and the vast concourse that had assembled in breathless expectation were doomed to disappointment...
...piece to "By the Way", all excellent work. "By the Way" itself, however, offers serious ground for the suggestion, already often made, that this column be definitely done away with. All the possibilities of this department seem to have been exhausted long ago. The jokes are mainly of the pun variety, in general of the poor pun variety, and the verse, excluding perhaps that on the last page, hardly justifies its selection for printing. The Lampoon is always so well supported by undergraduates that it owes them the best of which it is capable. And surely, when "Lampy" does...
...Jacobs '08; "Mr. Dooley Discusses College Athletics," by E. D. Biggers '07; "The Difference," by F. H. Davis '07; "La Gloconda," by H. W. Bell '07; "On and Off the Stage," by J. Hinckley '06; "Usquequo, Domine?" by Van W. Brooks '08; "In Defence of the Pun," by W. L. Stoddard...
...current issue of the Lampoon needs no introduction. It comes to us as an old, old friend, and brings to us tender recollections of days at school, when a pun on "bass bawl" and "base ball," or the confusion of "pane" with "pain" seemed to us as merry as could anything. To speak seriously there are in the number some old and some rather strained jokes...