Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter, suddenly becoming aware of this monster in a pill-box, has cast it forth with just indignation. The president in his statement certainly makes the spot on the Lampoon's scutcheon larger than it really is. To say that it had "maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable deviations" is almost equivalent to saying "Have some coffee with your cream". Surely in this case the "cream" is rather an exception...
...Clean humor...
...There is no reason to be dubious of the fact that this policy will be met with approval by University graduates, but there is reason to fear that it may not be favored of the average undergraduate, who sad to say, seems to enjoy immensely the type of humor displayed by the average college comic papers. In spite of the fact that the colleges of the country are supposed to be made up of the sharpest-witted and most intelligent men of the younger generation yet for years this same smutty brand of humor has been in vogue...
...Life, E. S. Martin '77, Life's Editorial writer and one of the first editors of the Lampoon, and Oliver Herford; all of whose suggestions would seem worthy of the weightiest considerations" explained Nichols. "These men seemed satisfied that the Lampoon had maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable deviations. They felt that the only way was to be thoroughly consistant in the policy and not to permit a half-way reform. Yet it is not so much a question of reform as one of raising the standard and presenting something...
...Composition, in the Elective Pamphlet fails completely to describe English 12. What of the "evenings" which form an integral part of the course? What of the personal conferences in which the fearful author is forced to see himself in the Mirror of Truth? And what of the wit and humor of his lectures? For beside Professor Copeland's technical knowledge he has an even greater asset--a rich and unusual sense of humor. He believes after Moliere in the "cure by laughter" and he is amply justified by its success...