The Harvard Lampoon won back its Ibis Wednesday, not to mention the respect of admirers of good-sportsman-ship everywhere. The gentle Poonies found the legendary bird at the bottom of the Adams House swimming pool at the end of a three-and-a-half hour Treasure Hunt sponsored by the Harvard CRIMSON.

Ibis had his baptism by baptism at 11 a.m. Having graciously consented to serve as the object of the treasure hunt, Ibis settled into the chlorine-scented depths of the Adams pool sustaining life through a primitive papyrus-reed snorkel, a memento of Ibis's original Nile home. From time to time, Ibis gave Treasure Hunt officials the V sign made famous by Winston Churchill in World War II.

Meanwhile, Hunt officials explained to the Poonie team of four that, "any Harvard man with a quick wit" could locate the treasure in half an hour, all the clues being planted within minutes of each other.

At 2:25 p.m., the team of Poonies, having combed Cambridge landmarks and badgered merchants for clues, deciphered the final conundrum. By 2:28, Lampoon President La Farge was undressing at pool's edge, and in another minute was paddling towards the pool's littoral regions with Ibis in a fireman's carry.

Emerging drenched to the quills, Ibis asked for a towel. "It's not a duck's back, you know," he quipped.

"That Ibis is no chicken," cracked La Farge, carrying the winged creature back to his perch on the Lampoon's Kaiser Wilhelm helmet cupola.

The Poonies homed their minds on the following CRIMSON clues:

1. Governor Dudley kept appointments, But only when Sol saw fit to smile; Under the rainy day's annointments, He wasn't protected by this Dial.

2. Professors look down the street at the fog,

Rain, and mist of a winter day's damp.

With a vacuous snore and asleep like a log,

Herr Zimmermann lies on a secretive ramp.

3. What do fish have?

4. QUESTION PROMPTED BY A THREE HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY PRESENT

Oh, sons of Harvard in Peking,