Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Which the Lampoon's perfected--poor show...
...disturbed this morning to find at my door an announcement that the CRIMSON was responsible for the parody of the Lampoon. It is one thing for an organization such as yours to deprecate the efforts of another--after all, that is the function of criticism, and we have received a great deal from the CRIMSON--but to claim credit for the long and arduous efforts of others is eminently unfair, if not morally reprehensible...
Editors of the Advocate have worked hard this semester preparing their parody of the Lampoon, and much time and money went into producing what we feel is an outstanding work. If the CRIMSON has become so vapid and apathetic that it is unable to turn out a parody, it should be admitted. But the CRIMSON should not claim recognition for work of others. We don't claim Mr. Scott for one of ours; you don't claim Sallie Bingham for one of yours...
...Harvard means today.... They are dreamers and often poets." And so, in his undergraduate years, Jack Reed joined the Christian Association, St. Paul's Society, the Memorial Society, Debating Club, Oracle, Round Table, Dramatic Club, Symposium, Hasty Pudding--and became captain of the water polo team, Ibis of the Lampoon, Editor of the Monthly, manager of the Banjo, Glee, Guitar and Mandolin Clubs, and President of the Western and Cosmopolitan Clubs...
However much the swaggering Reed may have impressed Copeland, his poetry is only an expression of a somewhat sentimental and romantic college youth, with no lasting literary merit. His college prose was somewhat better, and several of his Lampoon articles showed a keen sense of satire. His short stories in the Harvard Monthly