The first number of volume thirteen of the "Lampoon" came out Friday. The present seems a fitting occasion upon which to extend congratulations to our sister journal. The "Lampoon" has had a hard task before it during the years of its existence, but has withstood all storms manfully, and now has a secure place among the college papers. We believe that the way in which "Lampy" shows his disapproval of certain acts on the part of our authorities is well adapted to the lessening of such acts, for the irony of the jester - whose person always is held sacred - does more to show dictatorial acts in their right colors than double the amount of serious writing. It is a pity, however, that anything was said in the last issue about the college Faculty, the proper target of college humor. But on the other hand, this deficiency was more than counter-balanced by the traces of Puck-ian humor discernable here and there. Especially do we approve the spirited manner in which the articles in the last number give a well-deserved trust at the experiments in physical exercise in which Vassar girls are said to indulge. This reprehensible tendency of college maidens cannot be too severly rebuked. Sturdiness and vigor in girls are the objects of just ridicule. The "Lampoon" is a peculiarity of Harvard journalism, and without it we would lose one of the chief characteristics of Harvard life and manners. We can predict a long continuation of the useful life of the "Lampoon."