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...hypothesis that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the Lampoon, editors are prepared to meet any emergency; distrustful alike of weather reports and all the laws of averages, they consider that the day of the Yale game, above all, is no time to take chances...
...laughing at ourselves. We even offer them the opportunity to make themselves at home by laughing at us. In order to facilitate and concentrate the general amusement, the Crime takes pride in announcing its appearance on Saturday morning, and solicits contributions from the college and even from the Lampoon...
...Lampoon should ever succeed in its campaign against the attendance of Freshmen at Boston debutantes' parties there is no knowing the ends to which hostesses may be reduced. Even though the Lampoon should fail, which is quite incredible, the hostesses seem to be drifting into difficulties. It is expected that the time is near at hand when they may institute a paging system. Then we may expect to hear in the halls of Westmorley, Claverly, and Randolph and in the lounges of clubs, pages shouting as they make the rounds. "Two sober young gentlemen for a dinner at the Somerset...
There were other examples of collegiate waggery, astounding when one considered that they were the product of the feminine intellect. Radcliffe had turned the trick. Collegiate fops who declared that there have been no witty women since the 18th Century were laughed to scorn. The Lampoon was worsted. For a day jubilation pranced in the Crimson editorial rooms-and then, on a plain typewritten sheet, came the cruel, the incredible dénouement...
...letter from the President of the Lampoon. It benignly informed the editors of the Crimson that the female digs at Harvard, the womanly brilliance which glittered in The Crime, had been contributed by the editors of the Lampoon-males...