Word: classically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CIRCUS-Hugh Lofting-Stokes ($2.50). The Doctor Dolittle stories are for children or grown people or both. Hugh Walpole calls one of them "the first real children's classic since Alice." Doctor Dolittle is probably the only man in the world who talks animal language-in all dialects. His adventures are varied -one of the most entertaining being his connivance in the escape of Sophie, the trained seal. The good doctor's intimates are all with him-Jip, the dog; Dab-Dab, the duck; Too-Too, the owl; Gub-Gub, the pig; Matthew Mugg...
...tables, the paraphrases of classic writers, the poems which somehow missed publication in the Advocate, the jokes the point of which is that they have no point--all these things which puzzle the casual reader in search of fun, are quite in the Lampoon tradition. In short, the current issue of the Lampoon, to paraphrase an old howler stands with one foot in the past while with the other it salutes the rising dawn of the Fine Arts Department
Plans for future games with outside elevens for the all-dormitory teams have been discarded, and the three dormitory teams are now being coached separately to get them into condition for the classic series...
...contrast, to the English university graduate who does not forget and yet does not find his vision stunted. A recent CRIMSON editorial described vividly one such man "who closed his desk at the War office at four and at six was delivering a lecture on aesthetics at Oxford." A classic example is Mathew Arnold, scholar and gentleman, seer and publicist...
Reeled from their classic joke...