Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lampoon officers and old Fortnightly members scrambled last night to take credit for the Saturday parody of the CRIMSON by the Harvard Yearbook staff...
Fool's Week is dead. Long considered the Lampoon's most sincere and humorous contribution, its demise leaves the publication with no apparent function whatsoever. The community can only deplore the timidity with which the 'Poonies have permitted a tight-lipped Administration to strip them of their raison d'etre...
Naked, confronted by a world they have faced only in these moments of confessed idiocy, they must retreat blushing. As perhaps the Lampoon's greatest admirers, we can but suggest that its late membership seek new outlets--the Advocate, or perhaps, for the more ambitious, the Yearbook...
...several years the University has threatened action, and following last year's Santa Claus stunt and arrest, President James D. Stanley '59 wrote the Deans that henceforth a Lampoon board would guarantee that all amusements would be harmless and responsible. His successors, however, were until recently ignorant of his letter...
...full Lampoon board met last Friday and signed a statement asserting the collective responsibility of all members. Fools' Week was unanimously abolished, and with it all costumes, entertainments and organizational activities outside the building...