Word: comic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most part, sympathetic. The second act showed substantial improvement. The actors were more at home in their parts, the lines were read better, and the wit of the dialogue more frequently crossed the footlights. The gradual rise in tone, the gaining of the serious upon the comic element, which is one of the most marked features of the play, became distinctly perceptible. This improvement was sustained through the third act. Here a number of minor characters make their appearance, and the scene of the reception for Lord Ravensbane, falling, as it did, within the range of what may fairly...
...should say, was the Lampoon's most crying need. We do not ask for great originality. The College field is too limited. We merely plead that some-one endeavor to lure from the verdant spirits who have not yet fallen under the hypnotic influence of the established and irresistibly comic sources of our University humor, some joke, some drawing, that does not deal with the polar seclusion of Conant and Perkins, the chill heart of Radcliffe, the square rimmed spectacles of the Dean, or the untold wealth of the CRIMSON...
...program will be the same as given in the previous concerts, and is as follows: 1. Sand Man, Protheroe Glee Club. 2. Flight of the Birds, Rice Mandolin Club. 3. Popular Medley, Arr. by Rice Banjo Club. 4. The Night is Still, Clark Glee Club. 5. Comic Opera Selections, Arr. by Rice Mandolin Club. Intermission. 6. Kerry Mills Barn Dance, Mills, arr. by Rice Banjo Club. 7. A Summer Lullaby, Gibson Glee Club. 8. The Glow Worm, Lincke Mandolin Club. 9. Yankee Dandee, Weidt Banjo Club...
...addition to the regular events of the dual meet the Brookline Swimming Club has arranged for the following open events: 50-yard handicap; 80-yard novice, national championship A. A. U. plunge, 160-yard handicap, fancy diving, comic costume race, and a special exhibition of fancy diving by J. B. Green of the Brookline Swimming Club...
...present attitude gains ground, the Monthly will soon begin issuing comic supplements and the chess team will be giving gymnastic exhibitions in the Yard. Although the Speakers' Club has a perfect right to give theatricals, we still maintain that it should stick to its own department and leave representative undergraduate dramatics to the proper organization...