Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...starts ambitiously, but is not sustained and falls flat at the end. It is well set off, however, by marginal drawings. An article of unusual merit is that entitled "The Bell's Old Memories," which deals with the traditions of the College, and displays at times qualities of real humor. Of the two editorials, that on the Hollidays is much the better and seems inspired by the Christmas season. The other on "Life" appears far-fetched...
...centre page of the "Football Number," express very adequately the present dissatisfaction in regard to football. The bit entitled "Sporticus," in the series of "Lampy's Menagerie" is a very pleasing innovation. Although short, it is one of the best executed pieces in the number on account of the humor and scientific language. Another timely and interesting part is the "All Cambridge Team for 1899," which contains the usual local hits but with unusual variations. The short jokes in prose and verse are very good, but the drawings, excepting the centre page, are not above the ordinary. The series...
...themes. "Counterfeiting," by A. H. Gilbert '01, is an ingenuous and amusing little sketch of a somewhat conventional sort. The Hon. Jack Castleton, a shy, weak youth of the "gilded set" and the educated valet are familiar figures; but the writer puts them through their parts with skill and humor. A throughly studied final situation gives the sketch the needed balance...
...previous ones and is timely, but might be improved by the omission of the play on a word in the last sentence. The Yale game, described in scriptural language, is a great addition to the editorial column. The smaller bits, which are few, contain a fair amount of humor...
...then skilfully introduces upon the scene some of Mickey's "boon companions." In the dialogue which follows there is both vigor and movement, and wherever the writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very few sound strained. "There's Just One Girl," by Edward Richard, is a frail story of the expanded daily theme type, which, while it shows a good deal of cleverness of an observant sort, proves beyond doubt that the writer has no knowledge of human...