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...much for justification of the solemn Advocate's successful venture into the pasture usually conceded to the Lampoon. And it is genuine praise to say that this month's Atlantic Monthly matches in wit the famous Fake Crimson, and the Boston Transcript editions of Lampy. As befits the "literary undergraduate publication" the burlesque is not too obvious, in fact June Dandelions, the opening story, might almost have appeared between the authentic buff covers of the Back Bay Monthly. There is the same haunting sense of fatality and say-it-with-flowers motif, the same flattering intimation that the reader...
John Cowles '21, of Des Moines, Iowa, has been appointed Tree Orator by the Class Day Committee to take the place of Davis Merwin '22, who has resigned the position. Cowles, who completed his college course in three years, was last year a member of the Advocate, Crimson, and Lampoon boards. He will deliver his oration to the Senior Class only, early Class Day afternoon between Holden Chapel and the Phillips Brooks House...
...have been a hardened reader of the Lampoon for years and years, and I must say I have learned to shun that annual issue to which the ex-editors contribute. Only too often it has been made up partly of the inferior work of famous graduates who fished out of a pigeon-hole their worst performance of the year and sent it along to Lampy; and partly of the ponderous jests of men who were once elected to the staff through their own sheer industry or the editors' inadvertence, and who insist on contributing to graduates' numbers just to remind...
However, it was not left to the "Ornery Editors," as Mr. Flagg calls them, to write the whole paper. Those who think that there was ever better light verse in the Lampoon than when Lawrence McKinney '12, Roger Burlingame '13, and Richard Evarts '13, were writing for it had better read "Integer Vitae or As You Were" and the other jingles in the Graduates' Number. Those who want to know the sort of absurdities that Robert Benchley '12 committed for the Lampoon before he gave up drawing and became Life's dramatic editor should consult page 455. Those who believe...
Crimson-Advocate-Lampoon Relay Race.--Won by Crimson (R. W. Harwood ocC., J. R. Flather '23, John Shepley '21, A. H. Gordon '23); second, Lampoon (J. D. Merwin '21, P. L. Romaine '22, C. W. Baker '22, J. T. Baldwin '21); third, Advocate (J. F. Leys '21, R. E. Larsen '21, C. B. Gulick Jr. '21, H. S. P. Rowe '22). Time, 1 minute and 41 seconds...