Word: humors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second number of the Lampoon maintains the excellent standard set by the first one. The local hits in the jokes and the drawings are unusually clever and give the paper an interest which no amount of humor on general matters quite equals. The centre page drawing, "Herbie Arrives in the Philippine's," and pictures of the Freshman billiard room in the Union and "Bloody Monday in 1920" are exceptionally good. The reading matter in the number deals chiefly with College happenings, as it should--and is interesting in consequence...
...Class of Nineteen Hundred and Three of Harvard University sends to you its deepest sympathy in the sorrow which has come to you and the Class by the loss of your son, Francis. His unvarying good humor, his bright disposition and kindheartedness endeared him to the friends he made among us, and made his loss the more deeply felt. He was sincere and constant in his friendship, and left behind him memories of goodness, kindness and unselfishness. For the Class, EDMUND J. D. COXE. WILLIAM N. TAYLOR. THOMAS STOKES. VICTOR C. MATHER RICHARD DERBY. ARCHIBALD G. MONKS. WILLIAM C. CLARK...
Singularly clear and simple in quality, the humor of the Lampoon is so carefully annotated that it can be enjoyed by any child of ordinary attainments. The joke on the front page, for example, is good, but no one must be allowed to miss it; therefore we find a line of italics clamoring for attention. All danger of losing the point is in this way cleverly avoided. On the following page, too, there is a naive little aside, which informs the reader that he must not attempt to see through the appended joke. The caution seems needless, though the merit...
...venturing out too far into an unfamiliar world. Most of them are drawn more or less from the experience of the writers and are, therefore, strong in their vividness and sincerity. "Salem Skinner, Sportsman," is perhaps the most entertaining" story in the number. The writer has not allowed humor to run riot and has tempered his ridiculous situation with a very appropriate touch of the sentimental side of boy human nature. "From the Front Platform" suffers somewhat from unnecessary length, but the story, which the old horse-car driver tells, is dramatic and abounds in well-drawn pictures. "Coward...
...enough by its model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails for this reason, and wanders along, overshooting the mark, when a little more skill would have made it entertaining. The maudlin sketch, "At the Freshman...