Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the Lampoon executive board was suspended for one year, and the remainder of the executives were put on disciplinary probation yesterday as a result of the interruption of a Social Relations 1b lecture last week...
Investigation revealed the plot was worked out by the Lampoon staff and accomplished by one of the "foola" as a condition of election to the Toon...
...gentry who attempt the magazine's printed matter-freshmen, members of the various Harvard clubs across the country. Boston newspaper reporters, rival collegiate magazines, and the postal department-must have full confidence in the Lampoon's strangely bloated reputation as a humorous magazine. (A small but effective survey just concluded by this department has revealed that the majority of people who consider the lampoon to be funny have neither read it nor seen it. Few people questioned admitted to not having heard of it, however, though some were under the impression that it was the University's daily newspaper...
...more notorious wits (reputedly the only paying customer to have terrorized the staff if Hayes-Bickford as to be permanently black balled by that establishment) painstakingly immortalized in the story "How I Blew My Lunch Money." If this small clique-claque is the audience for which the Lampoon is written, then this story of a champagne picnic in a rented dump-truck, should hit the spot. However, as humorous writing, it just...
...Potter's gamesmanship-or How to Win Without Actually Cheating." It is called "Test-manship" and gives some various practices which may be employed in "the art of taking exams without actually knowing anything." This piece of drollery, along with the cartoons, and an advertisement announcing that the lampoon is offering a prize of 3 dollars "to the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There may, indeed, be some truth to the report that...