The latest Lampoon--the so-called Race Week Issue--will fit in perfectly with all reunion activities. It has the attributes commonly ascribed to reunioning graduates; a fine old fellow, lots of life still in him, but yet somewhat fuzzy and at times even a little bloated.

John Updike once again has done most of the literacy and art work for the 'Poon, and while his writing is clear and witty as usual, mass production seems to have dulled his choice of material. One poem treats the case of the intellectual whose appreciation of literature has one fatal crack--an inability to appreciate Pogo. This sort of thing has been written in the past about Chaplin, Mickey Mouse, and Li'l Abner. It is hardly an exciting theme, but Updike treats it quite as well as anyone has in the past. Far better is his theme-poem on the crew race at Yale in which a pleasing metre manages to overcome a dull subject.

On the other hand "Thinley's Last Stand" is built around a basically amusing topic--the imposition of an admissions screening process on the Liot House--but none of the implications of its humor are left to the reader's imagination. "Macavitys Rat" picks up the old theme of extra-talented experimental animals and leaves it rather the worse for wear. Two men collaborated on Pygmalion, Mark III," thus making it twice as long and half as funny as it should have been.