Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LIGHTLY skimming over the surface of life in Cambridge, your brilliant contemporary, the Lampoon, is shocked to find us much given to hypocrisy. If this charge is true, let us hide our diminished heads. The revelations made this winter concerning the undergraduates of Harvard are fully as startling as the recent disclosures in Washington. We have been shown to be oligarchs, indifferent, pessimistic, given to "European clothes" and Eastlake furniture, "a cigarette outside and low thoughts within"; and to all this is now added the epithet "hypocrite." It is the straw which breaks the camel's back. But before...
...About half of everything here is hypocritical to a more or less extent," is the "awful statement," to make which the Lampoon abandons its levity. If this statement be true, the Lampoon will not have lived in vain. If by these words we are brought to a realizing sense of our condition, our "comic college journal" will deserve all the good things that have been said of it, and may rest its reputation on this one point...
...third, vindicating the cause of the oppressed, takes the side of Harvard against the Lampoon...
...wicked tremble, and the sinful man beware of the Lampoon...
...eyes were completely dazzled on looking over, yesterday, the bright columns of the Harvard Lampoon. A venture in a field of college literature never before tried is a daring thing indeed; but if success does not attend the efforts of the editors of the paper whose first issue appeared yesterday, it will not be because their efforts are undeserving of success. In spite of the prophecies of their far-seeing minds, we wish them heartily all manner of good fortune. Nor can we see any reason why the fate of their enterprise should be doubtful, unless, perchance, the standard they...