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...last number of the Lampoon is one of the best that has been published, some of the drawings reminding one of Life in style and execution...
Some time ago we were informed that the proper support was not given the Advocate to insure its success. Then came the news that the Lampoon was in a similarly crippled condition. Such a condition of affairs as this is entirely uncalled for, and should not be endured. That the two oldest publications of the university should fail through the apathy of the students to support them, is by no means a flattering complaint to Harvard enterprise. It cannot be allowed to continue. It must be seen that success in a college publication is entirely dependent upon the interest manifested...
...little importance; but they have done something that looks very much like deliberate plagiarism. As one looks at the " eating club" illustrations, he is astonished to find that one on page 142, is merely a sifting together of the figures in two of Atwood's famous sketches in the Lampoon, without so much as a hint at the authorship of the design. As this looks suspicious, the reader will look over the book again, and lo ! on page 106, the young lady playing tennis will be seen to have been deliberately copied, line for line, from last year's " Liber...
...subscriptions to the Lampoon ought to be handed in as soon as possible, as the paper ought to be put on a firm basis before it loses the services of '85 board...
...have felt for some time that in one department of college journalism Harvard is at a disadvantage. The CRIMSON, we flatter ourselves, represents Harvard creditably in the matter of news and current comment. The Advocate represents Harvard creditably in the line of current comment and light stories, and the Lampoon certainly places us far in advance of other colleges in the matter of humorous writing and illustration. But anyone familiar with college exchanges knows that in the line of serious literary composition, in the sort of work found in the Yale Lit., and Princeton Nassau Lit., Harvard is represented...