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...particular, they have more artists. At O. and C. there is no dearth of young men who can write--I mean, will write--for the Isis or the Granta, but the number of those who are prepared to draw in public is, as a rule, extremely small. The Harvard Lampoon and the Yale Record seem to be in much better case. The Lampoon, by the way, is so overflowing with merriment that it has built itself a building which actually looks funny, and I was assured that it was intended to look funny, so as to be in character. Ingenious...
...Lampy . . . hereby issues a sincere desire that all may have a merry Christmas, yea, including Deans, creditors and CRIMSON editors." Lampoon editorial, December...
...Lampoon, in a burst of magnanimity has extended its Christmas greetings even to CRIMSON editors. This manifestation of Yuletide good feeling is indeed touching; it has even tempted us to rhapsodize after the manner of our more light footed editorial contemporary--on the emotions which arise in us upon reading this simple and unaffected expression of kindness. It is a pleasant world, after all, we exclaim. What are the little grievances which weigh upon us at times; the trifling annoyances of life which would seem to be the workings of a divine, but not to us benevolent Providence--what...
...such thoughts as these. Unfeeling, dull, prosaic creatures that we are, we must leave it to those airy children of light-winged fancy who live around the corner to disport themselves upon the breath of words; and to play the role of merry-hearted Puck. Readily will we wish Lampoon editors (nor will we, in a spirit of mean reprisal, add "and Mayor-elect Curley") a very merry Christmas and a New Year in which there will be innumerable candidates blest with the divine fire. And if our good wishes seem not to bubble spontaneously from an overflowing heart...
...result of a recent election held by the Lampoon, 13 new members were added to the board. From the writing and drawing competition, the men who have been elected are Richard Dodge Gerould '24 of Cambridge, Francis van Wyck Mason '24 of Winnetka, Ill., Walter Thomas Prendergast '22 of Marion, Ohio, Benjamin Manson Rice '24 of Dover, and Francis Wenderoth Saunders '24 of Boston. From the business competition, the men elected are George Moss Kendall '24 of Bridgewater, John McKinstry Kimball '24 of Portland, Maine, Edwin Katte Merrill '24 of Bedford Hill, N. Y., Frank Manning Seamans...