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The Lampoon.

The last number of the Lampoon contains a good deal that is timely and humorous. Though the drawings are not striking, those by W.N. Taylor '03 and the center page by D.C. Bartholomew '06, are exceedingly effective through their clever simplicity. Most of the other drawings are not without merit, the only really insipid effort being carefully located on the cover.

The hits on Memorial Hall are by far the most amusing portion of the paper, and resemble sufficiently the actual state of affairs in the Hall to appeal strongly to those who board there. Small portions of "Baedeker's Harvard" and the "Dictionary of Collegiate Biography" are rather good, but the humor appears forced throughout. "By the Way" is the regular senseless collection of puns, and hardly reaches the usual low standard of that column.

An editorial on undergraduate literary criticism contains a good deal of wit and some thought. One cannot read the other editorial, on the subject of the defeat by the CRIMSON, without thinking that if the "Lampoons" could play a baseball game as well as they can describe it, the annual score might be less overwhelming.

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