Word: humor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...March number of the Graduates' Magazine contains Professor Peabody's opening address delivered in the Aula of the University of Berlin, on "Academic Reciprocity;" a delightful essay on local color in Harvard verse, written From a Graduate's Window, in a vein of kindliness end gentle humor that must inevitably re-establish that column in the affections of undergraduates at least, the address on "Emerson and Scholars," delivered at the opening of Emerson Hall, by E. W. Emerson '66; so much of Professor Coolidge's report as the Chairman of the Athletic Committee as bears on the question of professional...
...Mark Twain's Library of Humor: Men and Things...
...Amour Medecin" is a gay, swift trifle, full of the broad humor of burlesque that carries itself in any tongue, and strikes the eye in the action of the players before the words reach the ear. Sganarelle's daughter is sick of love for her Clitandre. Her dull old father is too stupid to see the only cure. Wiser is the daughter's companion, the sage Lisette--wise beyond her years. She tells slow-witted Sganarelle that it will be a death-bed unless physicians are summoned. There is safety in numbers thinks the old man, and four doctors answer...
...second day's session of the seventeenth meeting of the New England History Teachers' Association, to be held this evening in the Art Museum at Springfield, Professor A. B. Hart will speak on "The Humor of History." Professor E. Emerton, the president of the association, will preside...
...principal characters, should prove extremely successful. The characters are well conceived, and in general take advantage of many laughable situations. C. P. Whorf '05, who wrote the book and many of the lyrics, acted most naturally of any of the principals, and put a great deal of spirit and humor into his songs. T. A. Whidden '05, as Inspector Baggs, carried out his part cleverly and without exaggeration, and was unfailingly humorous. E. H. Baker '06, as Lord Coldstream, although too conventional in his acting and somewhat inconsistent in his accent, kept the audience thoroughly amused. S. Titcomb...