Word: joking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pleasing. Moreover the drawing does no more than illustrate the text; it does not of itself add to the humor. The sketch on the opening page is appropriately "impressionistic." Perhaps the cleverest bit of drawing in the number is the illustration at the top of page 53, a joke made new by interpretation. These figures are alive; here are expressed energy, character, action, and humor. In a small space the draughtsman has said much and said it well...
...first or second. Be it said, however, that it can hardly be easy to keep the standard of the paper always as high as it was in the first number of the year. Perhaps it is lingering pride in those first two numbers that makes the Lampoon reprint a joke that appeared two weeks...
Singularly clear and simple in quality, the humor of the Lampoon is so carefully annotated that it can be enjoyed by any child of ordinary attainments. The joke on the front page, for example, is good, but no one must be allowed to miss it; therefore we find a line of italics clamoring for attention. All danger of losing the point is in this way cleverly avoided. On the following page, too, there is a naive little aside, which informs the reader that he must not attempt to see through the appended joke. The caution seems needless, though the merit...
Barring a pardonable joke on the first page, the present number of the Lampoon carefully avoids reference to the recent wetness in Cambridge. After earning the gratitude of its readers in this way, the paper proceeds to make itself more than usually entertaining, both as to stories and illustrations, and even puts some life into its editorials, by way of variety. It is interesting to note, too, that the "keg" in the Sanctum is at last emptied; one wonders how the "By the Way" column will get along in the future without it. As to the drawings, nothing need...
...that name. "A Reason for Secrecy" is a vague in its ending but it is a good bit of description. "Adelaide Maurice, 'Cure'," and "A Class Game" are two humorous stories, the former too impossible to be effective, the latter a very amusing story of a college practical joke...