Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentry who attempt the magazine's printed matter-freshmen, members of the various Harvard clubs across the country. Boston newspaper reporters, rival collegiate magazines, and the postal department-must have full confidence in the Lampoon's strangely bloated reputation as a humorous magazine. (A small but effective survey just concluded by this department has revealed that the majority of people who consider the lampoon to be funny have neither read it nor seen it. Few people questioned admitted to not having heard of it, however, though some were under the impression that it was the University's daily newspaper...
...other stories, as well. First, the writing in itself is not funny and too often the plot, which could be secondary in a good bit of humorous writing, isn't worthy of telling. And, second, there is little pleasure to be found in the mere style of the various contributors. The writer of this issue's editorial and a past contributor to the "At the Pleasure" series, is an exception to this latter, however...
...most successful article is one written in the manner of Potter's gamesmanship-or How to Win Without Actually Cheating." It is called "Test-manship" and gives some various practices which may be employed in "the art of taking exams without actually knowing anything." This piece of drollery, along with the cartoons, and an advertisement announcing that the lampoon is offering a prize of 3 dollars "to the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There...
Provost Furniss and Dean of the College William C. DeVane, both members of the Prudential Committee, have at various times described the informant as "trustworthy", "a person who felt it was his duty to Yale", and a "man trusted by Yale in the past...
Pointing out that in recent years there has been increasing evidence that the adrenal cortical hormones exert marked influence on many metabolic processes, Dr. Thorn said that this group had attempted to determine the effects on rheumatoid arthritis of various measures designed to stimulate the pituitary-adrenal system...