Word: humors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is the beginning of a story in the last Acta Columbiana: "The speaker was a handsome young senior whose large brown eyes, sparkling with good humor, showed him at once to be one of that happy-go-lucky class of collegians whose whole soul is wrapped up in the present; one whose past has no regrets, whose future causes no uneasiness...
...industrial problem was first discussed. Agriculture is too much in the hands of large land-holders. Mr. Page described the character and manner of living of the farming population of North Carolina, and kept the audience in continual good humor with his apt word pictures. "No other people in the world," he said, "have developed so far the art of resting." Manufactures are rapidly increasing in importance, especially those of cotton, iron, steel and lumber. In North Carolina alone there are 40,000 square miles of forest as yet untouched. This amount is exceeded in Florida and Georgia, and equalled...
LAMPOON - F. H. Briggs.When I am dull with care and melancholy, Lightens my humor with his merry jests...
...York Times fulminates on the subject as follows: "The total absence of any sense of humor among the students of American colleges is a very curious phenomenon. From the time that the American youth enters college until he graduates he rarely gives the slightest evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth...
...subject of college songs also troubles the Times man. "There is no patriot who does not blush when the subject of American college songs is mentioned. Not one gleam of humor can be found among them; and with the exception of two or three, the music of which is German, they are without any musical merit. With his curious ignorance of humor, the undergraduate believes that certain of these songs are humorous. What must be the mental condition of the person who holds that it is funny to repeat in unmusical chorus the words 'co-ca-che-lung, che-lung...