Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ruland, '89, has been elected an editor of the "Lampoon...
...staff. Any Harvard student who thinks he has a taste for newspaper work is given plenty of chances to test his abilities and to find out whether he really has the 'nose for news.' Aside from the opportunities offered to write for city papers, the DAILY CRIMSON, the 'Advocate,' 'Lampoon' and 'Harvard Monthly' open for him useful fields for practice...
...February, 1876, a new and highly original publication was started, quite different from anything that had yet been done in college journalism. "The Lampoon" was founded by members of the classes of '76, '77 and '78, and some of the best literary work done in college has appeared in its pages, while many of its drawings are of exceptional merit. Its publication was interrupted from October, 1880, until March, 1881, when it was resumed again and has continued without interruption ever since...
...this way supporting also the cause of morality by removing the cause for much vehement malediction. (2) Bring your lady friends to the winter meetings, and thus increase the meagre treasure of that most energetic and praiseworthy organization, the H. H. A. Support the college press, the "Advocate," the "Lampoon" the "Monthly," the CRIMSON, not only financially, but above all by literary contributions. The Yale papers are contributed to with the final end in view of gaining an election to some society. Let it never be said that this stimulus gives Yale better literary work than does at Harvard...
...might we, ridiculing all things like the great cynic, despising all things that are of this world like the sublime Futze, live delicious lives amid imperishable laughter at those follies and absurdities of Puck, Life, Punch, the Faculty and the Lampoon that alone make life worth enduring...