The Yale Alumni Weekly in its current issue takes advantage of the celebration of the Lampoon's fiftieth anniversary to insert the following laudatory words:
"Certainly, to an outsider, the Harvard Lampoon is more that a humorous magazine," says the article, "it is an individuality. If it is a solemn undertaking to become a Harvard undergraduate, the Lampoon eases the yoke; if the Harvard undergraduate gets too serious, the Lampoon holds up a mirror to him. Satire and good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average editorial. The college humorous paper that is content to remain merely a cermic loses a golden opportunity."
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