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...humor. While exhibiting a less fertility of imagination than the "Social Science," and perhaps less profundity of obfuscations than the "Intellectual Science," yet, in play of fancy and subtlety of wit, the "Harvard Bible"* is second to no other humorous production of this age. In it we think we find traces of a familiar pen, and recognize, here and there, the touches of a master hand, whose productions are not entirely unknown to the undergraduate world. There is a delightful vein of half-concealed, often completely hidden humor running through the work and coming into view only to the observing...
...theirs would become a part of the general edifying literature of the world. The arrangement of the work is excellent, considering its early date, and in general its wit is very pointed; but there are some humorous touches in it which we cannot satisfactorily explain. For instance, we find on page twelve an apparent reference to our modern games with forfeits. "A student who fails to do this forfeits her right to washing for the week." Was that a joke practised in the school or convent where we are led to think that this work originated? Certainly, if anything more...
Throughout this work we find such minute directions that it would be insulting to their age to suppose that the girls at this institution were more than nine or ten years old; and we recommend the book as a curiosity, and as containing some useful hints to all who are interested in the primary-school system and Kindergartens of our country...
...another instance, yet fresh in the minds of one Senior society at least, Sir Registrar coolly denied a request that the Dean granted. We trust that the Faculty will take action on this question, and not add to the long list of Harvard matters, "what nobody can find out," another one in the shape of Chapel cuts. And if we are granted the permission of knowing just where we stand in this required exercise, we trust that the Registrar will deign to allow the Faculty's vote to be carried out, and save us the trouble of recommending his case...
HARVARD men will find some extremely witty burlesque writing in the item column of the last, Advocate, under "Comments on the Recent Fire"; the hits there are too good not to be continued, and we look for more...