Word: humored
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON baseball team will administer its annual drubbing to the Lampoon aggregation of ball-muffers, on the Freshman Diamond, this afternoon, at 4 o'clock sharp. This bunch of pseudo-literary bunco-steerers, whose motto is "millions from advertisements, but not one line of humor," have profited in their business to such a degree that they were able to offer Hans Wagner a fabulous sum to play for them. Although he refused, being unwilling to associate with such an unscrupulous body, these wielders of the shears and paste-pot will undoubtedly pull of some equally delicate bit of delicious humor...
...first play, "The Heart of the Irish man," by L. Hatch '05, was suggested to the author by an episode in Charles Lever's novel "Con Cregan." The play is full of rollicking humor, with touches of fine sentiment...
...Ward Shepard writes seriously on "The Spirit of Traherne." Traherne is unknown to so many of us that Mr. Shepard would have done better to have made his essay more of an exposition. Mr. Grandgent Fils tells a story of war and love with realism and a sense of humor. In "The Winged Stone" Mr. Reed retells a story that is as old as the Greeks, that of the ambitious youth who has to choose between true happiness and wealth and power. The youth chooses the latter and finds how little profit there is in winning the whole world...
...result like his is gained. In "Will Ellis" a situation is described in which a tragedy is inevitable--the passionate protest of an ignorant mountaineer against the invasion of his domain by a railway; the tragedy comes quite naturally. "A romance in red" is an anecdote, full of quiet humor, with an undercurrent of sadness. All three of these stories have the quality of realness--an encouraging fact. The poetical pieces have refinement of feeling, but none of them will take strong hold on the reader; "Gulls" is the best, but they all lack definiteness and force. The reviews...
...Charles A. Eastman gave an interesting lecture to the members of the Union last evening on the subject of "Indian Wit, Humor, Poetry, and Eloquence. He wore the full dress of a Sioux Indian and was given an enthusiastic reception...