Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...better of our dignity. If an insult were intended to Professor Wendell surely something would have been done which would have left us in no doubt as to the intention. As to the insult to the class suggested by the writer in Wednesday's CRIMSON, I think the laughter at the time of the interruption to the lecture puts that well out of question. Granting that the trick was foolish, granting that it was, meaningless (which would remove the insult), granting that it was too bad to lose the lecture, it is still making a mountain of a mole hill...
...best thing in the current issue of the Lampoon is the centre-page reproduction of a well-known weekly. There are a good many things in the rest of the number that should produce laughter in the average undergraduate, and pictorially it is pleasing. Of local hits-the natural province of the Lampoo, wherein it is mose successful,- there are several good ones,- "A Fast Life," is true to life or at least three mornings in the week. The "Foibles" of the Advocate are also well done...
...most excellently followed out. Though a most difficult part, his accent is perfect, and his interpretation of the part of a simpleton is most amusing. Nicole, the servant, though he spoke too quickly and his accent is not finished, yet entered with great spirit into his role; his laughter especially upon his entrance was natural and very infectious...
...part of his wife is not so strong and his accent is rather rough. Lucille, too, whose part is taken by J. W. Frothingham '99, is a little awkward in her movements. On the other hand, E. L. Dudley, as Nicole, the servant, is very good indeed, her laughter when she first comes on being absolutely contagious. R. L. Hoguet, who takes the part of both Cleonte and the Maitre a Dances, is excellent and has a perfect accent. G. E. Hill also, though he speaks indistinctly, is very well adapted to the part of the Maitre de Philosophie...
...description of the veteran who has been shot in the lip, and years after tries to tell the story of the "battle ob de Wappahanook," is a piece of blithering nonsense calculated to make a sane man doubt his own sanity, even as he wipes away the tears of laughter. So secure seats at once and drive dull care away and spend an evening with Gilmore and Leonard and the little Yellow Kid in "Hogan's Alley...