Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sometime assisted in the more or less fortnightly appearance of Lampoon, turn to him always with the best will in the world to be amused. We are loath to be denied and, where we must, eagerly accord the benefit of the doubt. We realize that only spasmodically does he achieve his full destiny of Chorus to this University drama; only too often he is the conventional Vice, with his lath dagger become a slapstick. It is his business to be local and timely; it is our good fortune if he be sometimes sage and witty. And of the few good...
...annual elections of the Lampoon for the coming year the following officers were elected: president, H. E. Porter '09, of New York City; ibis, R. E. Andrews '10, of Brookline, Mass.; treasurer, G. Farwell '09, of New York City; secretary, T. I. H. Powell '10, of Newport...
...versatility of the contributors to the Lampoon is the despair of the reviewer. In it one has always to reckon with pictures as well as print, and this time there is music as well. It clearly ought to be reviewed by a committee; no one man can cover the ground. The present writer has been obliged to call in the aid of musical and artistic friends, for whose judgement he is grateful, but not responsible. It is reported that the song may be burlesque, but it is not music; that the pictures may have humor, but have...
...years ago two class-mates of mine "Out" for the Lampoon, used regularly to devote a portion of each day, rain or shine, to helping each other think up jokes. Apparently times have not changed, not the ways of candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial...
While in College Mr. Wister was an editor of the CRIMSON and of the Lampoon. He received the degree of the L.L.B. cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1888, and a year later was admitted to the bar. He has travelled extensively throughout the United States, and written many well-known books, among them: "The Dragon of Wantley," "Red Men and White," "LinMcLean," "The Jimmy John Boss," "Ulysses S. Grant: a Biography," "The Virginian," "Philosophy 4," "A Journey in Search of Christmas," "Lady Baltimore," "Mother," and "The Seven Ages of Washington...