Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powel was killed in an automobile accident on December 17, 1958, returning from Harvard to his home in Elgin, Ill. An honorary scholarship recipient, he had just been elected to the Lampoon...
Completing a short but brilliant flurry of sporting activity which had earlier seen a stirring crew victory over the Harvard Lampoon, the CRIMSON scored fifteen runs in the first inning but just one in each frame thereafter--in a gracious gesture to keep the score down...
Unfortunately, the contest was also distinguished in a different and uglier way. It is necessary to say here that The Lampoon put on a brutish display of calculated poor sportsmanship. Even the 'Poon's most hardened critics were appalled at her vicious effort to avoid defeat...
...most stirring triumphs ever recorded by an American crew, the CRIMSON eight yesterday overcame every disadvantage and extended its undefeated record by thrashing its Lampoon challengers by an unprecedented margin of 11 1/2 lengths...
...audience to enlighten. In practical terms, this means that the enormous intellectual value of college drama would be lost to both actors and audience without the producers who don't walk out in the middle; that college writers can be heard only through the representatives of the CRIMSON, the Lampoon, and the Advocate, representatives who do try to do a good job; and that even future politicians need the training that may mitigate the perils of adult political life...