Word: humor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lampoon competition for writing and drawing men from the classes of 1918 and 1919 will start on Wednesday evening. All new candidates should report at the Lampoon Building at 7.15, when the work of the competition will be outlined. An acute sense of humor is the only necessity...
...prose in this unusual number of the Monthly is scarcely less notable than the verse. Best of all is "Temptation" by Mr. Watson, whose fantastic yet unadorned humor is a gift rare indeed. The saints stirring "uneasily in their thrones" shows the white flash of genius. Mr. Fay's "By Olympus," not-withstanding the "hymadryads" (this issue is defaced by misprints on almost every page), is another little master-piece of delicate comedy. A Bacchus that smiles in his sleeve is surely a god we may all worship. A pleasing prose-poem and Mr. Wright's severe indictment of Chesterton...
Someone has said that it would have been better for Kipling's literary reputation if he had died at the time eighteen years ago when he was so near death's door; it is said that there has never been a moment of buoyant humor in his writing since that time, and hence he has been subjected to much criticism. But few people know, Mr. Bangs said, the cause of that change. Rudyard Kipling had a little daughter to whom he was greatly devoted. When he fell ill, he was unconscious for fifteen days, during which time his daughter...
...genuine "production" by Granville Barker, it is probably the most enchanting piece of clowning that has visited Boston for many theatrical moons. We know it could never be real, so we take refuge in "Mediaeval," and that is exactly the word. The spirit, the quaint vigor, the broad underlined humor of the situations mark it so for the spectator, even if he has his eyes shut. Robert Edmond Jones '10 has dressed the play and players in the colorful riot of an eastern bazaar. The very rags of the beggars have been schemed with an artist...
...notable personages who have been well known visitors at the University in past years. There will also be some allusions to past historical events in which the United States and England were mutually concerned. The Marquis will end his speech with a brief discourse on national types of humor, including English, Scotch, Irish, and American...