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Yale's contention for the shorter distance may be explained by her defeat last year in which the crack University crew, stroked by motorboatman Loring raced across the half-mile finish line three lengths ahead (scoring like white men and not like the Crimson-Lampoon game) of the Eli boat after rowing at the low stroke of 44 throughout the entire distance. Yale's boat was stroked by Coach Murphy...
With the perennial Crimson-lampoon baseball game now a thing of the past, interest is beginning to center about the next diamond classic of the season,--the annual game between the Harvard and the Yale Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, which is to be held in New Haven at an indefinite date in the middle of June...
...quaint sanctum of the Lampoon yesterday afternoon a medal inscribed "Lampy to Francis W. Saunders for the Best Artistic Work of his Year" was presented to that editor in token of his winning the $1500 Scholarship award for foreign study, offered this year for the first time to "the Senior editor with the most deserving artistic or literary merit...
...ceremony was simple and unostentatious. Mr. John Templeman Coolidge '79, whose drawings appeared in the Lampoon during its first year, announced the decision of the Committee of award to a group of editors assembled for tea. Besides the money award to Saunders, a second medal, signifying Honorable Mention, was awarded to Lovering Hathaway, Sp. Mr. J. T. Wheelwright '76, one of the founders of the magazine, presented the medals on behalf of the Trustees. In his speech of presentation he stressed the value of the prize in stimulating cooperative work for the Lampoon by the editors...
...selecting the name of a numerous Massachusetts tribe, the satirist's taste is questionable. The Harvard Lampoon, more dedicate and urbane inverted "Holler Codfish Cabot at Harvard" is the unarm life." The slightest dip into philology would have shown the author the what is a "Cabot" etymologically? It is "the vulgar name" of a fish with many other aliases, "cabasuda," "cabasuc," "cabotin," "Joel", in short, a "bullhead." In heraldry it is a fish with a big head. "Little Codfish Bull cad at Harvard!". At this barbarous fish-chowder the Sacred Codfish, pale at the gills, bites off its own scales...