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When President James Rowland Angell addresses visitors on Alumni Day (Feb. 22), Yalemen will know the exact extent to which the House Plan may supplant the sacred rites and traditions of Old Yale...
...lampoonings, Record artists and scriveners had taken up stumbling brush and unsure pen to abuse Edward Harkness again. He had given Yale more than $10,000,000 for a House Plan similar to that of Harvard (TIME, Jan. 20). Still unaware of the Plan's detail, Yalemen only knew that last autumn's excavations on New Haven's Elm Street were for a group of buildings vaguely designated as "Unit...
...Yalemen it was obviously "another Harvard trick." Sure enough, six days after the theft, at a dinner given by the Harvard Lampoon (vitriolic, funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish...
Harvard authorities felt that " 'Lampy' had been a bit childish." Yalemen admired, were amused...
...Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members of the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Yalemen guests of the Harvardmen. Each alumni body had brought along its university president. All understood it to be the first meeting of its kind in history...