Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no quarrel with our neighbor on Mt. Auburn street. He goes his way and we follow plodding. Any attempt on our part to catch him or his humor, like a projected theft of Thor's thunder,-could hope for no higher fate than drowning in the gloomy dep hs of our own ink-horn. Besides to be funnier than Lampy one must be intensely serious and come out early and often,-in many extras,-and we cannot hope to compete with the "Telegram...
...editors of the Telegram, being earnest, sober-minded men, have not been fooled by the fact that the Lampoon in question is a parody. That, of course, makes no difference in the aim of its humor. Similarly, the humor itself is not the extent of its transgressions. The advertising, too, reeks with the malicious and depraved spirit of the Lampoon Board. From the advertisement of the Prudential Insurance Company, the obnoxious phrase "The trouble with the Fifth Chapter of Genesis" is held up as "other proof that the asses who bray throughout its pages are particularly concerned in ridiculing what...
...publication is described by officials as "semi-serious" and will not conflict with either The Yale Record, The Yale Daily News or the Literary Review. Its pages will be devoted to music, the drama, literature, humor and athletics, with many illustrations and drawings. It has attracted the interest of the whole University, being described editorially in the News as a "welcome addition...
...great, it does not out-shadow the rest of the company, as stars are wont to do There is no great chance for art here: it is the whole-heartedness, the vigor, and the liveliness of the whole cast that makes the play so appealing. If the humor seemed to drag in spots, it was only because it needed a responsive audience to echo it and buoy it up. There was plenty of it, spontaneous and without archaism. For settings, which required frequent shift, curtains and flats were used with artistic and appropriate effect, and proved readily adaptable...
...duties at Harvard as Boylston Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and chairman of the Athletic Committee, the position has brought him in to close' contact with the students of the two colleges, and has established for him, on account of his sympathy, humor, and kindliness, the warmest possible place in their affections...