Word: leacockism
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Then Stephen Leacock Esq. (not so much the purveyor of "Nonsense Novels" as the Professor of Political Economy), moved by the Ancient Dame's merry gesture, gave his "Canadian Ec.A." cuts for a month and thought audibly about "College Dormitories." To be sure, his tongue would persist almost suavely, in finding his cheek, and his left eye indulge its habitual wink, but for the greater part of two pages Professor Leacock voices irrefutable solemnities...
Fund Committees, hear! hear! We propose as the first incumbent of the Cozy Chair in the Department of Dormitories, Stephen Leacock Esq. (not so much the professor of Political Economy as the Purveyor of "Nonsense Novels...
...Harcourt. Travel. White Shadows in the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien Century. Biography. Theodore Roosevelt, and Autobiography Scribners. Essays. Dame School of Experience. Samuel Crofters Houghton Miffin. Letters. Familiar Letters of William James. Atlantic Monthly. Poetry. Heavens and Earth. Stephen Vincent Be net Henry Holt. Humor. Winsome Winnie. Steaphen Leacock. John Lane. History. Thought and Expression in the 16th Century. Henry Osborne Taylor MacMillan. Foreign. Hunger. Knut Hamsun. Alfred Knopf...
Tonight at 9 o'clock Professor Charles T. Copeland '82 will give his first reading of the College year in the Dining Room of the Union. His reading will consist of selections from Thackeray, Kipling and Leacock...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, of the Department of English, will give his third reading of the year tonight at 9 o'clock in the Dining Room of the Union. Professor Copeland will read selections from Leacock, Kipling, and Dickens. The doors will close promptly at nine, after which hour no-one will be admitted...