THE IBIS AND THE AMBASSADOR

Twenty Years ago on Memorial Day morning, the University world was startled by finding on the front page of the Crimson a report that the Yard police had succeeded after a desperate battle in preventing a band of anarchists from blowing up Memorial Hall. A careful examination of the edition revealed other astounding stories, innumerable typographical mistakes, and several official notices of a misleading nature.

The Lampoon editor who published this famous fake Crimson, Richard Washburn Child, has just been appointed Ambassador to Italy. During the two decades since this coup, Mr. Child has been active in the journalistic world, winning for himself so great a name as a newspaperman and publicist, that he was chosen by President Hardnig as one of his closest advisors during the recent campaign.

The Crimson feels sure that any Lampoon editor capable of publishing an edition of the University Daily is an unusual man, and, therefore, extends its hearty congratulations and good wishes to this worthy son of an ancient rival.