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...there appeared a rival, the "Majenta," afterwards called the "Crimson." A friendly rivalry immediately sprang up between these two, and continued until the consolidation of the latter with the college daily in 1883. One of the youngest, and yet probably the best known college publication in existence, the "Harvard Lampoon," was first issued in the spring of 1876. At first the contributions were confined to the pen and pencil of undergraduates, but the next year its scope was enlarged and contributions were received from graduates. It has since gone back to its original plan...
...score of great familiarity and intimacy can we explain the liberty so often taken in getting off these "grinds." Another reason possibly why such a publication as the Aegis is successful in the smaller colleges, is that the smaller colleges have fewer papers, certainly nothing like the Harvard Lampoon, and therefore supply the need in another way. College wit has to break out somewhere, if not in a Lampoon, in an Aegis...
Owing to an unfortunate delay, the Christmas number of the Lampoon will not appear till Monday...
There is no institution at Harvard in which we take more pride than in the "Harvard Lampoon." When it was started, it might have been called a graduate paper; but of late years its editors and contributors have been drawn from undergraduates exclusively. On these the burden of editing such a paper has fallen so heavily, that there has repeatedly been danger of its discontinuance. The editors have asked, not only for financial support, but also for contributions from any member of the University. This year, we understand, the greater part of the prose writing falls upon a single...
...Lampoon, some eight years ago, inspired by the co-educational movement then setting in at Harvard, drew a picture of what would probably be seen at the college in the year 1976. A young lady, very "tough" in looks and dress, with a cigarette and a "dawg," was represented as coming out of Holworthy, carrying a shingle with the announcement that the Amazon Club met that night. Look on this picture, and on the following, and then say if the Lampoon's prophecy is unlikely to come to pass. On one of the trains to New York-so we learn...