Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amateur success in politics is not beyond the realms of possibility. Were it not for the fact that cities a hundred times the size of Youngstown permit politicians to "pull off" the most incredible hoaxes on the people, the case of Mr. Oles could be passed over as a joke. But remembering this fact, his election is an additional indication that the average intelligence in this country is such that a clever salesman can get away with almost anything...
...that anyone would object to the exit of the very sad prohibition jokes--but he resents the implication that he may not make such a joke whenever the spirit so moves him. Humor, however, is irrepressible; and the ridiculousness of the plan itself causes the prohibited to chuckle. As a contributor to the New York Times has pointedly asked, "will we have to have still another law prohibiting jokes about the suppression of prohibition jokes...
...limiting sections 32 and 33 to Harvard students. I might suggest that alumni be granted the privilege of seating there also, and having the opportunity of increasing the team's support. Organized cheering at games, with the exception of Princeton and Yale, has been more or less of a joke, but by excluding women, non-supporters, and neutrals from those two sections, the results should be startling C. B. BUTTERFIELD...
...summarizing the results of the track season, the most important point is that the team has been brought from a low level to a high one, all in the short period of a few months, and that now, instead of being regarded as a joke, it is thought of as one of the strongest teams in the East. A large part of the credit for this rise must be given to the two coaches of the team, Bill Bingham and Eddie Farrell, and also to numerous graduates who have been on hand from time to time to assist them...
...times there does appear an article tinged with anti-Yale prejudice. They are often amusing from certain standpoints. People who laugh, however, seldom condemn. The stories that have appeared criticizing our Campus are not doing damage, because they are not convincing. Nobody takes them seriously. A joke on ourselves is to be laughed at--when it is a good joke. But when invention tires, and the articles become fiat repetitions we do yawn a little and wonder why the editors allow such obvious space-fillers to clutter up their columns.--The Yale News