Word: humor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enter, provided he has a sense of humor and a pen. Or he may omit...
...longer will late wayfarers be compelled to wend their course in pitchy darkness, and never more will Lampy be able to use the "pseudo-lamp-post" as humor for its picturesque cover. These same pillars of illumination have burst gloriously from the embryo, the Gay White Way now dominates our nocturnal existence, and the twenty-four hour day is successfully innovated...
...Bury Fair," the sixteenth production of old English plays. Although the play does not fall under the Elizabethan period, it has so many affinities of story and characterization that the Chapter has gone out of its proper field to present it. The play is a farce comedy whose humor is surprisingly up to date as a satire on our own social system...
...addition to the growlers, a professional entertainer will be present to bark away at the latest songs and tell what he considers to be the funniest stories in the world. He is reputed to have a wonderful sense of humor, so that he should leave nothing to be desired. Seniors will also have an opportunity to purchase the posters which have decorated the Square for the last couple of days because they are to be sold to the highest bidders. Besides their intrinsic value, the posters will afford a means of paying for some of the dogs, which is something...
...subjects have supplied more lasting material for our esteemed fellow contemporary, the Lampoon, than the bitter contests in the libraries which precede the tests in the large reading courses. There is considerable humor in the picture of a University member--and this is a true story--hurrying to the Boston Public Library by taxicab to secure a copy of a dollar and a half book which he is required to read by the following morning. Yet nearly every undergraduate, although his remedy may have differed, has been in much the same plight...