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...Yale Alumni Weekly in its current issue takes advantage of the celebration of the Lampoon's fiftieth anniversary to insert the following laudatory words...
...place that the Harvard Lampoon has held among American undergraduate publications comes again to public attention through the death of John T. Wheelwright, Harvard '76, one of its founders. Mr. Wheelwright was not only one of the Lampoon's original editors; throughout his life he was a member of a group that continually worked for its success and, strange as it will seem to Yale undergraduate ears, returned ex-officio to its staff as "literary editor" when forty-two years out of college, his help carrying the magazine through the difficult publishing days following the war. Here in coed...
...Lampoon announced last night the election of its officers for the coming year...
With every fiddler in New England clamoring for a chance to wrest the crown from champion Mellie Dunham, Bob Lampoon, honorary editor of the Lampoon, veteran piccolo player, has signified his willingness to match tunes with the Maine player. Bob claims to have over one hundred different pieces, where Mellie has only three or four, but the piccolo player declares that with a little practice he can become profficient in "Turkey in the Straw" and "Old Zip Coon" as well...
...Herald is opening this page to bring before the public the work of the college comics in this part of the country, and has selected the Lampoon as a suitable opener. The story is to be written by R. K. Lamb '28, and gives a chance for a fitting celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of this periodical. It will tell in detail the story of how the Lampoon has laughed at and been laughed at by Harvard College for half a century. Following this history of the University humorous magazine, excerpts from the best of past issues will be reprinted...