Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Twenty men, representing the CRIMSON, Advocate, Lampoon and the Monthly, met last evening to make arrangements for a dinner of the editors of the four college papers. Mr. Cobb, president of the CRIMSON presided and opened the meeting by stating the reasons for the dinner, and asked the opinion of the men present, as to the advisability of the holding the dinner By a unaimous vote it was decided to bold the dinner, and the business of elections was then taken up. A committee, consisting of the presidents of the four college papers, Messrs. Wardner, Dennison, Dodge and Cobb...
...Wardner, president of the Advocate, was unanimously elected president, and Mr. Dennison, president of the Lampoon, toastmaster. For poet there were two nominations, Mr. Parker, of the Monthly, and Mr. Gould, of the Lampoon; the former was elected. Mr. Cobb, president of the CRIMSON, was elected orator, and of the two nominees for chorister, Mr. Falukner, of the CRIMSON, and Mr. Atkinson, of the Lampoon, Mr. Faulkner was elected. It was suggested to the committee that the dinner should be held the last of next week or the first of the week following. As there was no more business...
...proposed scheme of a union dinner of the editors of the Advocate, Lampoon, Monthly and CRIMSON is an important and significant innovation. These four publications fill very different places and satisfy very different demands but, after all, their aim is the same. Forming. as they do, the strongest incentive to literary work, they are coming to see that their power in the future must depend largely upon their unity. The apparent rivalry between them has always been more fancied than real. That phase of college journalism by which one paper makes capital by carping at another is past. At Harvard...
...sophomore year he was chosen as poet for the class dinner, and his classmates will remember the clever lines he read on that occasion. During his whole course he was interested deeply in the college press. He was an editor of the Advocate, and was president of the Lampoon board, while he was one of those who founded the Monthly. In his junior year he won the Bowdoin prize by his dissertation on "The Rights and Duties of a Biographer." His senior year was one of unusual activity, for in addition to his work on the college papers, he took...
...Batchelder, '92, has been elected a business manager of the Lampoon from the freshman class...