Word: joking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hide this fact. The Union is thus grossly misused every year by a select body of men. Some few use it regularly without being members, though every means is taken to prevent it. The rest use it once in a while; and both seem to think it a joke, or think nothing about it. But mere thoughtlessness cannot explain it away, nor can it be given as an excuse." These men should be reached by Mr. Lunt's summing up of a true and remarkably well-written article--by the final paragraph in which he suggests that an attempt should...
...crying need. We do not ask for great originality. The College field is too limited. We merely plead that some-one endeavor to lure from the verdant spirits who have not yet fallen under the hypnotic influence of the established and irresistibly comic sources of our University humor, some joke, some drawing, that does not deal with the polar seclusion of Conant and Perkins, the chill heart of Radcliffe, the square rimmed spectacles of the Dean, or the untold wealth of the CRIMSON...
...Evolution of the Freshman's Letter Home"), yet the number is entertaining, nevertheless. "Mediaeval Gastronomy" is cleverly versified, and illustrated con amore. Even the account of the bold dash of Dr. Crook to the North Pole (now at last definitely located at Perkins Hall) though based on a joke never very funny and surely as old as the hall in question is undeniably amusing. As usual, the drawings are better than the other matter. The centre-page by Steel '11, is not only witty, but really refreshingly thoughtful. In a humorous way it points a moral which, with modifications...
...annual CRIMSON-Lampoon baseball game yesterday afternoon was called at the end of the ninth inning because no one had remembered to keep the score. The final score was probably 9 to 9 in favor of the CRIMSON. If the joke-smiths had been willing to continue the game, the CRIMSON sluggers could easily have increased their lead...
...Tres Ramilletes," a modern Spanish comedy by Breton de lcs Herseros, deals with the amusing complications which follow Don Narciso's Ecast of his popularity with the ladies. He concocts a scheme to prove his popularity, but the plot is discovered by his friends and the joke is turned on him. In "El Cochero y M. Corneta," the author, Ramon de la Cruy, treats the adventures of Nicodemus, a coachman who is discharge by his master for careless driving...