Word: humor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Prof. Everett by his eloquence and intense enthusiasm makes the past live again, and we are irresistibly carried along with him, listening with attention, only equalled by the lecturer's earnestness, to the story of Nisus and Euryaius, or enjoying the quaint humor of Aristophanes...
...proper subjects for satire, it forgets that a very short search through its back numbers would show that this opinion is either something new, or that it has many times been disregarded in the paper that expresses it. In point of fact a large part of the humor of every college publication is at the expense of the instructors. It is natural, too, that this should be the case. The members of the Faculty are the public men of what the Lampoon calls our "little world," and the faces of public men are public property...
...well for those who wish companions in their convivial moments only, but, for my part, I prefer to see my friends tested by the thousand petty annoyances that inevitably occur, and to find them still standing firm under the fire of my temper when I am in an ill-humor. Besides, the argument about seeking your friends when you want them works both ways. If your chum cannot be induced to let you be oblivious of his presence, - and one who will not should, I admit, be avoided, - it is still possible to avoid his company. Even here, half-deafened...
...Sophomore Class Supper was given at the St. James', Friday evening, March 31. Notwithstanding the small attendance, neither good-humor nor sociability was wanting, and nothing occurred to mar the enjoyment of the evening...
...different tastes in amusement; for example, I should suppose that any one who could give such an inane opinion of one of the most delicate satires that has graced the college papers, as F. G. does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others whose chief delight is to build a tower of moral rectitude whence they may alternately gloat over their own superiority and lament the vulgarity of the crowd. As I said, tastes differ, and it is well that each should have...