Word: postalized
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...only point on which serious objection had been raised was a picture of a nude man. This, a close parody of the name of a well known artist, constituted the grounds for the action of the postal authorities...
...frenzy of suppression has seized the regulators of morality. Not satisfied with exposing their humorloss deficiencies by calling a parody an intentional blasphemy, the postal authorities have taken another misstep into the morass of moral judgment in refusing the use of the mails to the Dial number of the Advocate. The definition of obscenity is one of the most perilous tasks which confront the executive. It is a judgment which must be made with modesty and diffidence rather than with the arrogance and assertiveness of the present suppression...
...pointed out by following generations. And in no field is authority so liable to blunder as in that of moral distinction. Each generation has corrected and even reversed the standards of obscenity and beauty which its predecessors respected. The constant modification of moral critoria should teach the postal authorities that they cannot be too cautious of hasty and outright condemnation...
When 75 copies of the banned Literary Digest number of the Lampoon were forwarded Saturday by postal authorities to the dead letter office in Washington, there to be destroyed, the chain of incidents arising from the suppression of the annual Lampoon parody neared its end. Whether or not this is to be the concluding episode in te matter will be determined by verdict of United States District Attorney Harold P. Williams '03 when he announces today or tomorrow his decision as to the advisability of prosecuting the editors of the University comic, and by the action of a joint meeting...
...legality of the Lampoon parody has been successively placed before the municipal police of Boston and Cambridge, the postal authorities at Washington, and the district attorney's office in Boston. In the first three instances the decision has been against the Lampoon, at first on the grounds both of indecency and desecration of the flag, and by the postal authorities, on the ground of indecency alone. Last Friday after the seizure of copies mailed here. Horace J. Donnelly, acting solicitor of the post office department issued an order for their confiscation...