Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Lampoon held last evening, E.W. Ellis '11, of Cambridge, J.M. Moore '11, of Detroit, Mich., S.B. Steel '11, of Chicago, Ill., and J.G. Wiggins '12, of Pomfret Centre, Conn., were elected regular editors. The following business editors were elected: R.T. Alger '12, of West Bridgewater, F. Gooding '12, of Portsmouth, N.H., and R.S. Hopkins '11, of Springfield...
...jester who holds the foaming glass on high. His welcome is rousing. It is echoed, though less boisterously, in the first editorial, which is devoted to the Freshman class. One sentence in this editorial is significant as showing the profound insight of the present board into the condition of Lampoon humor. "To an honored few of you," speaks the oracle, "will undoubtedly come the honor of rejuvenating the Great University Comie." This prophecy so modestly expressed, may be only a pious hope; let us humbly pray, however, for its fulfillment. The writer of the editorial has expressed a divine truth...
...thoroughly disapprove a recent article in the Lampoon, the moral of which was that we should all cheat did we not cower before threatened rustication. The tone of the paper is of course not serious, but such a treatment of the subject even in mocking vein is to be avoided as dangerous and apt to mislead. Were such a sentiment prevalent, we have no doubt that cheating would tend to become more instead of less common...
...annual CRIMSON-Lampoon baseball game yesterday afternoon was called at the end of the ninth inning because no one had remembered to keep the score. The final score was probably 9 to 9 in favor of the CRIMSON. If the joke-smiths had been willing to continue the game, the CRIMSON sluggers could easily have increased their lead...
...score stood 9 to 4. By hard hitting and clever base-running the CRIMSON team succeeded in bringing five runs over the pan. Then the ha-ha boys, enraged at seeing the game slipping from their hands, doctored up the score, and refused to continue to play. The Lampoon pitcher was carried fainting off the field on account of the terrible ordeal he had been through, and the sun set on another CRIMSON victory...