Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dialect, there are two and a half pages of it, verse at that, entitled "Old Nell," and signed Simon Smaull; but it is good dialect, and good, easy-rhyming verse and so makes about the best feature of the paper. The quaint humor which runs through the lines never seems to have been consciously sought after, and so becomes the more effective. Of the other verses, "A Song," by R. P. arrests one's attention with the swing of its lines. The thought, simply enough expressed, is more serious than most Advocate verse, but luckily was not entombed...
...rather above the average. Of the prose articles. "The Vermilion Pencil," by V. M. Van Beede, is cleverly written and ingeniously conceived. "The Apotheosis of Smith," by C. J. Hambleton is startlingly original in plot and not badly written; and "The Fiancees," by W. A. Green, is pleasant in humor but lacking in original conception...
Strand--"The Humor of Sport. II.--Golf," by J. W. Smith '94; "The American Cartoonist and his Work, H," by A. Lord '72; "Kitty and Nibs," by G. H. Page...
...rest of the number is largely given up to stories, two of a light, not to say fantastic character, two of a more serious sort. Both the former are very good of their kind. "Pomath," by E. R. Little '04, is a whimsical combination of humor and wild invention. "The Mermaid and the Schooner Scud" is quite as funny, quite as well told, and if possible even more improbable. "At the End of Four Years," signed "Ezra Kidd," gives a new version of a rather common plot, with a technique and setting decidedly better than the common. A mistaken impression...
...Story of the Man who Sat in the Stocks," by Ezra Kidd, is perhaps as powerful and well told a sketch as needs be expected from an undergraduate pen. By far the best story in the number is "George: the Second Ghost," by E.R. Little. This glimpse of true humor, seems to us to be rather near to an ideal Advocate story...