Word: humors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who attended the Freshman rally at Phillips Brooks House last Monday night at which the leaders of the various undergraduate extra-curricular activities explained the nature of their work must have been struck by the extraordinary good humor with which proceedings were punctuated. Not only was the serious side of undergraduate life outlined, but the spirit of affability and good fellowship and cheer was shown by the tone of the meeting. The stories which enlivened the gathering appeared as a particularly pleasant form of good clean fun. Accordingly the letter which appeared in these columns on Tuesday morning decrying...
...stream of laughter that did not desiccate when Freshmen asked, one after another, for information posted nearby. He know everyone's first name, as well as their last, and their human peculiarities. He knew how to flatter an athletic without swelling his head. His sense of humor was spontaneous and wholesome, and he was never without it. Frank was a personality, not a mere person, and in his seven years of service to Harvard University, he drew many close friends from those who saw him every day, every month. He would listen to their troubles without telling...
...survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with scientific integrity, it was illustrated with sly drawings by Artist Chichi Lasley, one of which showed a student fleeing in horror from a blackboard covered with difficult equations...
...boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took her to lunch to find out if she did. Deciding that her answer must be yes, Steve walked out. "If I stay," she told the doctor, "I'll lose my sense of humor, the whole thing will end in a mess." The doctor couldn't work without her and became so snappish Ina decided he loved Steve, started for Reno. When, having changed her mind at the airport, she came back and found him drunk in Steve's apartment, Ina throws...
...Humor, like poetry, has never been successfully defined. But that U. S. humor, at least, has something crazy in it has been proved every week for years by the famed New Yorker. Two of that smartchart's mainstays have been James Thurber and Wolcott Gibbs. Without buying up back files readers last week could get a slice of Gibbs and Thurber humor in concentrated form...