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Either something has happened lately to humor or something has happened to the Lampoon's alumni. The Graduates' Number, just off the presses today, surely is no feather in the old-timer's straw hat this spring...
...offering. But as for the others, it would seem that the further back they were graduated, the more they have been removed from The Stuff That Goes these days. The more the class numerals display their recency, the more do the contributions come near to being what the Lampoon now accepts. But even the best offerings could come much nearer...
James Montgomery Flagg played a mean trick on Lampy. All he drew for it was his signature. The rest of his stuff was an editorial that looked funny in the Lampoon because it wasn...
...manner of treatment is according to recent Lampoon traditions. By the cover and advertisements you may know a "special number", and the test holds good here. Once again advertisers have rallied round, editors have done their best with the little space left for them, contributors have laboriously given of their wit, and the whole has been by some benevolent genius framed into a well designed and effectively printed magazine. The formula, of course is old. One operatic burlesque, at least one biblical parody, seasoning in the form of an occasional lapse from good taste (if any there be benighted enough...
...hope that some roving spirit may some day think it worth his while to guide the Lampoon's ouija board, and spell out the suggestion that fewer "special numbers" might raise the average of the publication. Perhaps there might be more well tempered satire of our college habits and point of view, fewer venturings abroad to tilt against the windmills beyond our gates, and fewer half hearted contributors joining in the quest. Surely nothing would be lost. The good drawings and clever writing of this "Spiritualistic Number" would be preserved, and presented, perchance, with other contributions worthy of them, instead...