Review of Yale Game Lampoon

The current Lampoon, as befits the football number, admirably illustrates the will to believe. The cover is flamboyant with breezy confidence; scripture unschooled by higher criticism is called to witness in our behalf at the outset, and the tail-piece is a convincing vision of prophecy fulfilled,--a fulfillment heralded by many a timely dig in the intervening pages at our "dearest foe." Apart from the local color cast upon it by the shadow of coming events, the number strikes us as no more or less than most Lampoons. Some of the jokes and poems are funny and cleverly done, but they seem no more appropriate to the Lampoon than they would be to a publication of similar end and nature in any other college, or for that matter to any "funny paper" in general. One realizes perhaps that jokes are being cracked at the expense of college life, but of what college life one gets no inkling, unless indeed it be just that vagueness and lack of local stamp which stamps us.

Of the illustrations the cover seems the best. Perhaps it is the vigorous coloring which appeals, but apart from that it is conceived and drawn with spirit. "All the Law Allows" is a cleverly sketched caricature of the lesser gods at the Office. The centre piece is frowsy. The other drawings are not remarkable. To repeat a criticism made last year, I would advise the Lampoon artists to study the technique of the black and white work in such French comic papers as "Frou-Frou" and "Le Rire."