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...Edward S. Martin '77, of New York city, will be the poet this year. While in college he was an editor of the Advocate and one of the founders of the Lampoon, and belonged to the O. K. and Hasty Pudding. He is now an editor of Life and writes the "This Busy World" column in Harper's Weekly...
Taken as a whole the current number of the Lampoon shows that the Christmas holidays have had a rather demoralizing effect. With the exception of an "Idle Class Day," a take off on the last story in "Harvard Episodes," which is decidedly clever, and a humorous imitation of the CRIMSON'S special notices, the articles and minor jokes are ordinary...
...Lampoon editorial today draws attention to the fact that many Harvard undergraduates are for various causes forced to pass a rather lonely Christmas in Cambridge, instead of returning to their homes for the vacation...
...Christmas number of the Lampoon which appears today, strikes the key note of cheerful holiday good will. The editorial, most of the verses, and the most pretentious prose contribution of the issue, entitled "The Pictures' Xmas," all deal successfully with this old but always welcome theme...
...Christmas. The burden of the song is a promise to refrain from punning and to cultivate a higher form of wit. Unfortunately the "swear off" seems to apply only to that particular department. One is tempted to wish that such a healthy reform might be instituted throughout the Lampoon, in all issues to come...