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Lack of originality does not prevent the last Lampoon from being quite as entertaining as usual. The front page is an excellent take-off of the "Bugville" pictures that have recently crawled into so many periodicals. The drawing on the first page, too, with its faint suggestion of Peter Newell, deserves some mention...
...latest number of the Lampoon is good. All of the reading matter is replete with humor, and some of the shorter jokes that are scattered between the longer efforts are decidedly refreshing. The most important feature is the treatment of the recent fire in Trinity Hall. This is shown in a spirited center-piece, and discussed at length in "A Letter from Willie." Both of these show a fine appreciation of artistic detail and both bring out one or two incidents which actually happened. The drawing might have stuck a little closer to facts, and still lost none...
...little to be regretted that the Lampoon, in one of its editorials, should feel it necessary to expose its private life at such length, and serve it up as humor, especially when the Freshman candidates are evidently so energetic. if such space could be filled with more ingenious schemes like that proposed for the improvement of the Yard, it would be better. It is very gratifying to find the Lampoon suggesting that graduates make building improvements, even if it does rather suggest a "stale joke," appearing where it does...
...latest number of the Lampoon is a decided improvement over some of the recent numbers. Although there are still a few monotonous reminders of "twenty-fifth anniversary" and "fond looking-back period," the contents in general are very appropriate and will be more appreciated by the undergraduate body for whom the paper is published. Such things as the centre-piece, and "The Almanae" recall the best of the articles in the recent anniversary number, and suggest that the editors have at last settled upon the sort of sketches which appeal most to the average student...
...History of the Harvard Lampoon," by W. B. Wheelwright '01, is a little eulogistic, but at the same time contains many interesting facts which are unknown to the general public...