Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater" is refreshing. It is lively, witty, modern down to the fox-trot and the Ford joke, and at the same time normal and wholesome. The action never slows up, every scene sparkles with good lines, and you come away with a good taste in your mouth...
...denounces our colleges is even worse. He denounces our colleges as 'reactionary' and the 'greatest dead-weight the capitalist can fasten upon the necks of the American people. 'Politics,' he says, the colleges look upon as a low pursuit, and college opinion is regarded by our legislators as a joke. He thinks it a great pity that the political arm of our State and National Governments should not receive support from our colleges. Never in the history of the country have the nation and the state leaned so heavily upon our colleges for expert assistance and advice in every line...
...only place in the Government service today where college opinion and college men are regarded as a joke is in the Department of State. Mr. Bryan has driven J. B. Moore, a world authority on international law, from the post of counselor back to his chair at Columbia University. He has dismissed from the diplomatic service, after thirty years brilliant work, W. W. Rockhill, a college graduate whom the Chinese government is now seeking to employ as its chief adviser. In the place of a college man as First Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan has substituted a Wyoming apothecary...
...Classical Conference. "A School boy's Joke in a Greek Inscription," by Professor Lanman. "Coins Illustrative of Byzantine History," by Mr. H. W. Bell. "The Haynes Collection of Classical Antiquities," by Professor Chase, in Harvard...
...acrobats and town cut-ups from the class of 1917 take notice! More writing and drawing men are needed on the Lampoon. Make a joke if it kills you! Sharpen your wits and your pencils, and come round to the Lampoon building tonight at 7 o'clock. The work of the competition will then be outlined. Be a scream! There are a lot of chestnuts still left on the tree. Get under it and shake down a few! This is your last chance to be funny. Get in before the rush! Be a wag even...