Crimson Sends Lampy a Goose; Other Admirers Donate Piano, Persian Rug, and Hawaiian Band

Feeling that after all literary men should stick together, the editors of the CRIMSON extended more than the right hand of friendship last night when they lent the Lampoon a 50 pound punch bowl to help the funnymen celebrate their 60th anniversary. Not rich enough to rent one, Lampy at long last prevailed on the CRIMSON men to lend them the sacred punch bowl which has adorned the Plympton Street Sanctum these many years.

And it was some celebration.

Welcome Guests

Undaunted by the fact that Bob Benchley, the humorist, and President Conant couldn't find time to attend the mammoth celebration Lampy was consoled by their other visitors who dropped in at odd times during the evening.

Three irate, dusky, and somewhat incoherent Hawaiians were the first visitors. They brought a slap base, a big drum, and a sweet guitar but all in vain. The funnymen just wouldn't let them stay and at last report the unhappy musicians were walking toward Boston.

Next came a nice man with a big piano. Perhaps there was some connection, but once more the funnymen gave the nice man definite instructions what to do and it was to go very quickly were the temperature is much warmer.

Then along came an Armenian rugman with a luxurious 40 foot carpet but once more Lampy wasn't at home. And then came the climax of the evening. Not a speech by a prominent graduate, but another kind of speaker. One equally raucous, one equally unintelligible, but one of only indirect Lampoon descent. Just an old-fashioned goose. Sibi by name.

Delivered by a Western Union messenger in a large box, Sibi was but one more example of the CRIMSON giving the Lampoon the bird, and like the unusual goose it is, Sibi immediately began to honk and throw the funnymen into confusion.

It was a large gathering that Sibi came face to face with when she emerged. A gathering assembled to do honor to Lampy and Lampy's relics. Among these sacred objects was formerly an Ibis, but this Ibis has not been in Lampy's possession for three years.

Bright Bird

The story has it that one night three long years ago, this intelligent bird, it may be seen reading a CRIMSON, in the picture above, just vanished. Lampy was aroused, he kidnapped an undergraduate, he raided the Bones Club at Yale, but all in vain, the Ibis was still at large.

And then last Saturday in New York President Benchley of the Lampoon was handed the sacred object by a CRIMSON editor who felt like those other CRIMSON men when they lent Lampy the punchbowl. Unfortunately this funniest of the funnymen let the Ibis slip through his fingers and arrived once more in Cambridge with nothing but an old towel receptacle in place of his beloved Ibis. And now once more the Ibis has come to life and posed for photographers.