Word: mines
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...years ago two class-mates of mine "Out" for the Lampoon, used regularly to devote a portion of each day, rain or shine, to helping each other think up jokes. Apparently times have not changed, not the ways of candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial...
...Episode, and displays happy gifts of insight, humor, and expression. His Cuban in Wisconsin, who "doan' work, but just goes by," is a new type of that Beloved Vagabond with whom our sophisticated generation has developed such an odd, and yet not wholly surprising sympathy. Mr. Stoddard's "Mine Own Familiar Friend" is in a kindly vein, though it might more appropriately be entitled, "Mine Own Chance Acquaintance." The quiet humor of Mr. Porter's paper, "On Music," will be appreciated by men who prefer their own efforts in art to those of others...
...particular formation to be studied is a structure section of the Narragansett Basin. A carboniferous sandstone lying to the east of Providence will be examined first. Later a study will be made of the carbonaceous shales and the graphite mine at Cranston, west of Providence. From Cranston toward Natick there extends an underlying basal conglomerate with ancient crystalline packing. The party will return to Providence by way of Natick at about 1 o'clock...
...somewhat ill at ease, and C. B. Wetherell '08 were excellent hustling citizen's wife. The broadly humorous songs of Merrythought the old man, by W. J. McCormick '07, were exceedingly well received; but the most amusing feature of the performance was the excellent buffoonery of the mine characters, especially of C. W. Burton '08 and F. S. Howe '08, the squires to Ralph...
Stephens, H., mine owner...