Lampoon's Guide to College Admissions
By Editors of the Harvard Lampoon
Time Warner
165 pp., $18
The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, occupies a special niche on the campus extracurricular scene. For most of the year, the Lampoon's editors remain within the walls of what they like to believe is an impenetrable mock-Flemish castle. And then, once or twice every semester, they venture forth to distribute an issue of the magazine, or perhaps a Crimson parody. Their work done, they recede silently back into the shrouded depths of the castle.
Which invites a question: what do they do with the rest of their time? Crimson research has ascertained that there are Lampoon editors inside the castle at virtually all hours of the day. What could they possibly be up to? Campus legend has it that unspeakably depraved acts of arson, noise pollution, and drug abuse are par for the course in the Lampoon's guarded clubhouse.
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