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...other liberty that young men of Harvard took was more serious. The editors of The Harvard Lampoon (fortnightly funny paper) furnished their subscribers and the Boston newsstands with a familiar-looking magazine called the Literary Digest (Lampoon). The cover design of this magazine was a travesty of Emanuel Levitze's famed painting Washington Crossing the Delaware...
...illicit magazine did, however, penetrate beyond Boston. Reading it, many felt that apologies to the National Flag and to public purity were by no means all the debt the Lampoons editors had incurred. They had roundly insulted the real Literary Digest. They had insulted the publishers of the real Literary Digest. They had insulted, moreover, the readers of the real Literary Digest-that large portion of the public* that is grateful to the Digest for its weekly service of clipping, collating and publishing, at exhaustive length and with admirable lack of editorial color, a significant mass of opinion on news...
When 75 copies of the banned Literary Digest number of the Lampoon were forwarded Saturday by postal authorities to the dead letter office in Washington, there to be destroyed, the chain of incidents arising from the suppression of the annual Lampoon parody neared its end. Whether or not this is to be the concluding episode in te matter will be determined by verdict of United States District Attorney Harold P. Williams '03 when he announces today or tomorrow his decision as to the advisability of prosecuting the editors of the University comic, and by the action of a joint meeting...
...cover of the Literary Digest Number of the Lampoon is similar to the picture of Washington crossing the Delaware. There is no desecration of the flag--actual or intended...
...ardent patriots who executed this grand stroke were particularly offended by Lampy's version of Washington crossing the Delaware as it appeared on the front cover. Yet so little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some...