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...current number of the Lampoon, which is devoted to football, has more wit and originality than any preceding number this year. But it is prevented from being uniformly excellent by the pointless and offensive looking blot which is entitled "A short guide to Harvard University." The editorials are perhaps the best literary contributions, although the Irishman's point of view in "McGinnis at the Yale game," an imitation of Mr. Dooley, is amusing and ends pointedly. The editorial on the distribution of Yale game tickets lacks the overdone tone of previous ones and is timely, but might be improved...
...cover picture and the centre page are well executed suggestions and the latter stands well alone without the appended remarks. But the small drawing which so concisely -- we might say but too truthfully--pictures the present football ticket situation is by far the best item in the current Lampoon...
...chief of the College papers (some of whom spend more hours in working on College matters than almost any other undergraduates) and the members of the debating teams, about the encouragement of which we cant so much. Would the graduate manager maintain that the president of even the Lampoon had not a better right to ticket privileges than a substitute on the Freshman squad? I cannot see how he could, especially since it is known that Boston speculators have been selling tickets in the middle section since last Friday...
...election of Lampoon editors last night resulted as follows: Literary editors--F. R. DuBois '01 and H. W. Palmer '01. Business editors--E. Pettus '01, H. L. Shattuck '01, H. B. Clark '01, R. W. Goelet '02 and A. F. Baker...
...best pieces in the current number of the Lampoon are the bits of verse. Among the poetical squibs are several which are rich in both humor and local color...