Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans included bombing the Yard with toilet paper, kidnapping two or three Lampoon "fruits," and dressing an entire bogus Crimson football team which was to have taken the field just as the Band ended its half-time act, and dyeing the Charles River green...
Charging that the Lampoon simply isn't arty enough," John P. C. Train '50, curator of the Bow Street Aviary, yesterday led a bloc of dissentient dilettantes out of the magazine's monthly policy meeting...
...recall to any who take seriously your judgements of other publications, and to your reviewer himself, Robert Sherwood's recent lecture here, "After the Lampoon. What?" in which he gave his opinion that the magazine was of late at a high point in its course? A lone voice who will admittedly be shouted down by your chorus of magnanimous reviewers. J. Train '50, Harvard Lampoon...
...Lampoon is a legend, based partly on tremendous physical stunts but mostly on the work of a great many talented men who considered their magazine something more than a toy to be used for completely private amusement...
...fact, most people who buy the Lampoon, other than freshmen with no sales resistance, know that the Lampoon was once by far the best college magazine in the country, and every time they put down their quarter they hope that the present phase has ended...