Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lampoon figured prominently in a rash of satires and parodies of college life and faculty members which appeared between 1910 and 1930. All of these were printed privately at the authors' expense or by the boards of the Lampoon. For the most part, these little "cartoon and comment" books were of the same rather inferior quality and content as their recent relative--Gullible's Travels Through Harvard, which had microscopic success in Cambridge last winter. By far the best were two printed by the Lampoon writers...
Alice's Adventures in Cambridge, published in 1913, is a quite clever adaptation of the Alice story to a Harvard environment. Written by R. C. Evarts '13 and illustrated by E. L. Baron '13, both Lampoon editors, the book whimsically ridicules a number of Harvard professors, and revels in the apparent non sequiturs of an academic microcosm...
...three greased pigs took all attention from the doings of the Yale band during halftime, when they eluded the best flying tackles of groundskeepers and compiled the most yards rushing of the afternoon. Rumors last night blamed the Lampoon for their appearance, but in any event it was certain that they hadn't been playmates of Handsome...
...Lampoon took its own form of revange Saturday on the young Tiger who had proclaimed too loudly that he was just that. The 'Poon editors requisitioned his tiger skin, reportedly worth $400, and sent their own man inside it out on the field at halftime. The new tiger appeared with the Band, borne on a stretcher and covered with the Princeton flag that had mysteriously disappeared from the New Jersey campus just a year...
Deplorable as it may sound, the decade of the 1950's will very likely be known as an era of emasculation in college publications. Although the symptoms of decadence at Harvard appear only in the Lampoon, the creeping cancer of incompetence threatens to enervate completely our blase brothers in Princeton and New Haven...