Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Memorial Hall are by far the most amusing portion of the paper, and resemble sufficiently the actual state of affairs in the Hall to appeal strongly to those who board there. Small portions of "Baedeker's Harvard" and the "Dictionary of Collegiate Biography" are rather good, but the humor appears forced throughout. "By the Way" is the regular senseless collection of puns, and hardly reaches the usual low standard of that column...
...play, offering less prominence to individual excellence than "As You Like It," showed the uniform strength of the company. Mr. Ben Greet and Mr. C. Rann Kennedy the two Dromios, showed unusual appreciation and restraint, avoiding the buffoonery so often substituted for the humor of their lines. A nice discrimination was noticeable between the impersonation of Antipholus the Ephesian and Antipholus of Syracuse. A real difference in attitude, the difference between native citizen and stranger, stood out clearly in both characters throughout the tangles of mistaken identity...
...only contribution of any length is, "Its Voyage," a clever play upon words. Of the editorials, one is a farewell of the 1903 board, the other a commentary on football. The humor displayed on this subject never becomes so subtle as to strain the attention, and shows admirable self-control in the use of oaths...
...form at Dorset Gardens 1685. Frequent references to America and a detailed description of Virginia, as it was then thought of in England, give the dialogue unusual local interest. In movement "Eastward Ho" is a comedy of manners though its dialogue is informed with the keen wit and subtle humor of which these three Elizabethan poets were masters...
...Warren's Profession," by Walton, Atwater Green, the mild satire is skilfully managed and the whole idea is worked out with considerable humor. Quite as good in a different way is "Out of the Cucumber Vines," by E. R. Little, a tale of the war times, brightened by a number of keen little descriptive passages. "What Came out of the Peach Stone," by Alanson Roger Merrill, is a rather humorous combination of a mediaeval point of view with modern narrative style and ideas...