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Both drawings and text of the third number of the Lampoon reflect the present momentary interests of Harvard life, as interpreted by the College jester. The humor is as it should be, distinctively undergraduate humor. Timeliness is the mark and the merit of most of the contributions. These are divided about equally between the two great facts of undergraduate life during the first term, the advent of the Freshman class with its attendant complications, and "The Game." The space assigned to the hour examinations is relative to their importance--as interpreted by the jester. Of the three numbers that have...
...felt. Wit and humor have a narrow field in a College paper, but a very propitious one, since in College every one is or ought to be merry and everything has a right to seem somewhat novel and absurd. Let us hope the class of 1905, after furnishing the Lampoon with a lawful but will furnish it with a Howarth or two and one or two Herricks, to catch the momentary sparkle of our small world...
...ways of becoming funny are well illustrated by the two editorials in the current number of the Lampoon. One way is to turn convention into farce and the other to turn it into frank veracity. The first editorial considers how the advice recently asked for from undergraduates about ways of improving courses might be given next time not by A and B men, but by their "alphabetically interior brothren." The second editorial espigates the Freshman, already sore with promiscuous good advice, and warns him not to make his life "a giddy wheel of irresponsibility with its centre...
...most satisfactory test for a given number of the Lampoon is a question whether it contains much, or anything, which will be apt to serve, in years to come, as a pleasant reminder of college days. It is only as a record of student life at Harvard that the Lampoon is worth while. Judged by this standard, the last number, through not extraordinary, agreeably justifies its existence. The pictures, for all their rather crude drawing, are good-natured and tolerably local. The text-Lampoon text has always consisted principally of "filling"-contains a divertingly new interpretation of a familiar phrase...
...upon from 1906 and 1907, who have any writing or drawing ability, are requested to meet in the Lampoon inaction 8 Holyoke street...