Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate that the Lampoon spends all of its meagre talent on its special issues. The current number, for instance, the St. Patrick's number, though much less amusing than a magazine ought to be, where the vigorous and noisy wit and humor of youth should run riotously, is undeniably better than the numbers unadorned by Mr. Child's interesting covers...
...great many excuses might be made for the new board, who have just completed their first special issue. It is not certain, however, that they need excuses. Loveis of tradition would say that they were irreproachable, for they have maintained all the safe, conservative, comfortable principles so unbecoming to humorists, so ingrained in the foundations of the Lampoon. A custom can become a tradition in five years at Harvard, a practice may become a rigid rule in one year of Lampoon usage...
...decision of Mr. Emory Buckner, the new United States District Attorney in the New York district, to "padlock" restaurants selling liquor involves more issues than that of prohibition enforcement. Aside from the question of constitutionality, the extension of injunctions to cover this special field may bring all injunctions into disrepute...
...education behind him with a good scholarship record, and second, a private income sufficient for a modest living. In the Egyptian field the training requires a great deal of time and a man's material progress is slow. A man has to make his own place by developing some special branch of research in which he excels every one else. The number of expeditions is small and the places...
Clever satire is rare enough in these days to merit special recognition. In the article reprinted below, the New Student has used it to strike a sure deft blow against all that is illiberal and cheap in American college journalism. It is a fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair...