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Last night Mr. R. G. Moulton of Cambridge, England, delivered his talk on the Humour of Ben Jonson to a good audience in Sever 11. Professor Barrett Wendell introduced the speaker with a graceful allusion to the pleasure of new Cambridge in listening to a visitor from...
...Moulton began with the definition of the word humour and its derivation. It was derived from the Latin root meaning moistur and during the Middle Ages came to be applied in the plural to the moistures or juices which on old medical authority made up the constitution of a human being, as bile or phlegm. So a bilious or phlegmatic humour came to mean a certain character or state. This was the sense in which Jonson used "humour," in the play "Every Man out of his Humour...
...English Club. The Humour of Ben Jonson. Lecture. Mr. R. G. Moulton. Sever...
...most popular number of the evening. The two Saint-Saens selections were very happily chosen. In the first, Mr. Adamowski had a chance to show his good taste and fine technique without the pedantry of a concerto and Mr. Nikisch appeared to great advantage in portraying the grotesque humour of the Danse Macabre. It is too bad that some other part of the Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream music was not given instead of the Wedding March. The latter has what with many is a merit, familiarity; but many of the other numbers are quite as beautiful...
...striving to become what nature never meant they should be. Accountants, who might succeed if they stuck to that for which they are fitted, become starving "poets." Men of good sense, capable of being good doctors or able lawyers, waste their store of intellect upon wretched attempts at humour. The most important thing has, in their choice, been disregarded...