Lampoon.

The current number of the Lampoon, which is devoted to football, has more wit and originality than any preceding number this year. But it is prevented from being uniformly excellent by the pointless and offensive looking blot which is entitled "A short guide to Harvard University." The editorials are perhaps the best literary contributions, although the Irishman's point of view in "McGinnis at the Yale game," an imitation of Mr. Dooley, is amusing and ends pointedly. The editorial on the distribution of Yale game tickets lacks the overdone tone of previous ones and is timely, but might be improved by the omission of the play on a word in the last sentence. The Yale game, described in scriptural language, is a great addition to the editorial column. The smaller bits, which are few, contain a fair amount of humor.

Barring the so-called "illustrations" of the so-called "Guide," the artistic side of the number is all that can for the present be expected. A departure is made in a cover of heavy paper. The cover picture and the centre page are well executed suggestions and the latter stands well alone without the appended remarks. But the small drawing which so concisely -- we might say but too truthfully--pictures the present football ticket situation is by far the best item in the current Lampoon.