Word: life
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...habitual failings. If jokes are to appear once in so often, one cannot wait for them to "just grow" like Topsy; they must be manufactured. If there is little to suggest them, they must be forced. If there is dearth of local picturesqueness, they must go afield to life in general. Moreover, it is only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances...
...moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke-in-general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough edges in tradition, custom, manners, personalities to catch it. Here it is that the Lampoon is at a disadvantage. Life with us is too decent orderly, conventional, grown-up man- nish, and of the world worldly. There are few persons who of their won selves write caricature, merely ex-officio, in salt without meat. Again, very little that is ridiculous happens, and when it does, we are apt to regard...
...seems to us, but its coloring is a failure; the green is too poisonous, deadly so when laid in the purple. The rest of the drawing is mediocre. Perhaps the best of the illustrations is that to "Passing his Exam" (p. 209), which has considerable character and life. One cannot, to be sure, look for expert illustrative work in a college paper. But it would seem that, with some study and imitation of good models, far better results might be attained. One feels, for example, that Lampy might study the method and technique of the drawings in, say Fliegende Blatter...
...that although their number was small, they should not be discouraged, as it was rapidly growing. President Eliot then pointed out that as result of their generations of hardship, they had lost their physique and martial spirit, and advised and them go to in for more out-of-door life and to enter and the militia. He gave them credit for two great qualities, their beautiful family life and their power of intelligently directed, assiduous, and judicious labor...
...Stefansson, formerly an assistant in the department of anthropology, will give an illustrated lecture on "Winter Life of the Eskimo" at the meeting of the Harvard Travellers Club, this evening at 8 o'clock at the University Club, 270 Beacon street, Boston...