Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rail. Certainly no one has written a more ridiculous satire of Yale than this young man. Harvard men must not miss this epic of Siwash, Conn. "The Big Year" (Pulnam's) if it came from Cambridge, would be screamingly funny. As New Have propagands, it is a joke, all right, but not, we fear, by inteution...
Frankly, however, the joke has gone quite far enough. The efficient drafting of the laws is the sine qua non of a rational civilization. It is time that we established enough coordination between the legislative and executive branches of the government so that the statutes on our books may possess at least a semblance of meaning. At present no one knows what many of our laws really say, and every one is aware of the fact. This do-as-you-please kind of statute is a menace to our national life, placing the public, as it does, at the mercy...
...stories provide in narrative warmth what they lack in momentum. We applaud Mr. Morrison's "The Point of the Joke." Freshly conceived, acutely observant, on speaking terms with earth and eccentricity, the story steps with an easy twinkle. But "Old Dawson's Jumping-Off Place," by Mr. Burden, while it contains passages of imaginative glow and dramatic fire, strains plausibility. Even the sub-title, "From an Alaskan Diary", does not entirely persuade us. The "one last, single, long-drawn howl" is too much for us. We receive without accepting. And so of Mr. Whitman's "Shadows of Our Fancy": more...
James Russell Lowell in jest once referred to Harvard as "the Muses' factory"; in a recent article Professor Grant Showerman of the University of Wisconsin laments that the term is no longer a joke. The American university of today "turns out" several hundred graduates annually, each guaranteed at so many credits and properly tagged with a sheepskin label. State efficiency experts formulate results upon the basis of the unit-hour,--defined as one hour of instruction for one semester by one professor to one student oblivious of the fact that the only unit in intellectual life...
...Princess Radjah", with her famous "Cleopatra" dance, accompanied by a seven-foot snake, furnished a sufficiently thrilling curtain-piece. There was but one regret; that Billy B. Van didn't get a chance to finish that joke about the girl in Paris...