Word: humors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...makes men. The second of these functions gives the theme of this book, and the theme is treated, not theoretically, but in the light of long experience which a rare sympathy and understanding have made of the highest value. The essays are frank, forceful in their simplicity, full of humor, pointing out vividly the influences which work for the undermining of character or for its ennoblement, and revealing the folly of the curious idea that young men benefit from dabblings in vices. The book will be of much interest to Harvard men, but it should be most gladly welcomed...
...merits alone. The offices of poet and orator need for special explanation. The odist writes words to the metre of "Fair Harvard" and these words are sung to that tune at the close of the Class Day exercises. The ivy oration requires in the writer a fine vein of humor, of a more or less subtle sort...
...distinction not only in learning but in character. One of the greatest of these was Dr. James Walker, subsequently President of the College, who was a deeply religious man of reserved, strong character, great force of intellect and most impressive presence, and possessing a rare gift of twinkling humor which enabled him to enter deeply into the lives of all the students. Henry Wadsworth Long fellow, just rising to fame, was then an instructor, whom the students loved as a man of great sweetness of nature, of most universal culture, and a most thorough gentleman. Josiah Quincy, the President...
...inaccuracies in dialect and description, a sympathetic character sketch of the "old school" southern gentleman. "One of the Crowd," by Richard Inglis, is another character sketch: it seems a little improbable and is not vivid. "Tramping with a Botanist;" describes and mildly caricatures, with a good deal of humor, the adventures and character of an exploring botanist. "The March Inland," by Albert de Roode, written in the form of extracts from a diary, vividly describes the scenes in the American lines about Santiago; one gets a real glimpse of the experience the army went through in Cuba. "McGullop's Slide...
North American Review: "Ethical Functions of Football," by President C. F. Thwing '76; "An Italian View of Humor," by W. D. Howells...