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Both drawings and text of the third number of the Lampoon reflect the present momentary interests of Harvard life, as interpreted by the College jester. The humor is as it should be, distinctively undergraduate humor. Timeliness is the mark and the merit of most of the contributions. These are divided about equally between the two great facts of undergraduate life during the first term, the advent of the Freshman class with its attendant complications, and "The Game." The space assigned to the hour examinations is relative to their importance--as interpreted by the jester. Of the three numbers that have...
...much character is expressed in the energetic drawing of the figures crowding through the doorways. But the picture does not compose as a whole: the blacks and the whites are badly massed; as a total composition it is not pleasing. Moreover the drawing does no more than illustrate the text; it does not of itself add to the humor. The sketch on the opening page is appropriately "impressionistic." Perhaps the cleverest bit of drawing in the number is the illustration at the top of page 53, a joke made new by interpretation. These figures are alive; here are expressed energy...
...college days. It is only as a record of student life at Harvard that the Lampoon is worth while. Judged by this standard, the last number, through not extraordinary, agreeably justifies its existence. The pictures, for all their rather crude drawing, are good-natured and tolerably local. The text-Lampoon text has always consisted principally of "filling"-contains a divertingly new interpretation of a familiar phrase of Emerson's, and is generally and happily free from such faults of taste as often make humorous journalism repellent...
...best things in the paper are the first inner page, and the cloud in the centre page cartoon. The former, in its picture and in its text alike, is a pleasant example of good humoured, traditional local fun. The latter, in the midst of a generally clumsy drawing is a model of such friendly caricature as ought to be a permanent source of delight both to the subject thereof and to the numberless Harvard men in whose memory his kindly figure will always hover...
...Benjamin Rand has just published the fourth edition of his "Selections Illustrating Economic History since the Seven Years' War." This work was originally issued as a text-book to accompany the course of lectures, given here by Professor Dunbar; and was also adopted for a similar purpose in other American universities. Five new chapters appear in the present edition, and bring the economic history down to the end of the nineteenth century. Of special interest among the new selections is one by Professor Charles F. Dunbar on "The American Legal Tender Paper," and another by Professor F. W. Tanssig...