Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enlightened by a good section man, such as Mr. Carner (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12 o'clock) with a sense of humor and a knowledge of Castilian manners and modes, the course becomes quite delightful...
Colonial America considered by many a dull, dry subject, is here pictured in an amusing, yet scholarly light. The lectures which could easily be boring and uninteresting contain much humor and many queer tales of "the other side" of our colonial ancestors. Although none of the essential factual detail is omitted, it is presented in a fashion which makes the hours pass rapidly and gives one more time and interest for the reading a thing which he well needs, for the assignments are not short and many of them hardly brim over with fascination...
...their distribution requirement, tends to be dull. In the first half year the lectures by Robert H. Woodworth, assistant professor of Botany, are very well given, and the members of the course are kept interested by a quantity of good material which is enlivened by a sense of humor. In the second half year the lectures on Zoology are given by Jeffries Wyman, assistant professor of Zoology. Unfortunately, Professor Wyman lacks the sense of humor of Professor Woodworth, but anyone who will pay attention to his discourses will gain a good knowledge of the field...
...disguised himself in blue trousers taken from a Federal corpse, joined a Confederate night attack on Culp's Hill. At dawn good luck helped him inside the Federal position. Next day Pacifist Bale saw more bloodshed than most soldiers ever see, but he still had enough humor to laugh at the sign in Ever Green Cemetery: "All persons found using firearms in these grounds will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor of the law." He finally discovered his man's corps in the centre of the line, and was just being sent to the rear as a civilian...
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was called by Theodore Parker "The father of more brains than any other man in America." From his father, a New Haven blacksmith, he inherited distinctive Beecher qualities: dyspepsia, absentmindedness, manual skill, a sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and physical strength. Thrice-married he begat 13 children of whom three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When...