Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked whether there has been any increase in proxy registration to bring forth the new ruling, Kennedy pointed out a line in a recent issue of the "Lampoon" which referred jestingly to students "who fill our registration forms in their own handwriting...
...Lampoon" last night denied responsibility for the new procedure...
Amory, a former CRIMSON president, spends eleven pages of text and pictures describing life and atmosphere about the Square. He reaches the conclusion that local buildings which can be safely overlooked are "Memorial Hall, a Victorian-Gothic monstrosity built to commemorate Civil War dead, and the Lampoon Building, built for no reason...
...slated to go down-in Harvard's history as well as that of Cambridge. He stands alone as the only man who over dared call John Harvard "just another foreign or who never entered this country." And his judgment goes unchallenged when, during a $100,000 lawsuit with the Lampoon, he promised to tear down the Bow Street aviary and build either a saloon or gas station on its razed foundations...
...stuff, and this is some of it. Scattered elsewhere in the program are reams of strange pictures, and several short A. A. News-like articles which all have the good quality of not being obvious at first. One of the best features of any parody is its subltety; the Lampoon has ably met this requirement. And if you want to know how the Harvard-Yale gridiron rivalry began, there is a burlesque history of that...