Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...successful attempt to supply a much needed sort of undergraduate literature--light humor in verse and prose--marks the last number of the Advocate. Stories of that too common type, describing the piquant adventures of a conventional hero and heroine, have happily been passed by in favor of others which are frankly intended to be amusing and nothing more...
...stories of this kind. "The Reincarnation of Freddy" by F. R. Little, and "Sonnet Writing Exposed," by S. Greenfield, deserve special notice. The former, told in a happy-go-lucky style with frequent touches of humor, holds the interest of the reader till the end. The latter, a serio-comic essay with a good deal of truth mixed in, not only has the value of much wit, but takes hold of a live college topic...
...interest-compelling story of the west. In its theme it has a little echo of Kipling's, "The Man Who Would be King," and in treatment something of its vigor. "Timothy Knox, Peddler," a story by G. B. Fernald, is not good, for it lacks all plot and the humor in its sketchy description is too palpably artificial. "An Aspect of the Three Years' Course," by J. A. Field and "The Three Years' Course at Harvard," by B. Wendell, Jr., present the undergraduate's reasons in favor of the old four years' work. "Birthdays," a none too successful essay...
...educated man can speak on any subject before a well bred and educated Frenchwoman without offending her. He illustrated this by telling a story about a Danish officer who translated into Danish some of the short stories of Maupassant and was later prosecuted because in the Danish language the humor of Maupassant had turned into indecency...
Another essay on "Scholarship," is an investigation into the admitted superiority of the German scholar over the American. Following it is a paper on "Women," with a delightful vein of humor running through it, the purpose of which is to show American women how much they can learn from their German sisters, upon whom they are too apt to look down. The remaining essays are on "The Americans and the Germans," and "Americans Democracy," and are of a more general character...