Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Graduates of all classes will doubtless remember, perhaps with a smile, that it has always been the CRIMSON'S stately privilege to rise politely and deliver congratulations, welcomes, and glad words to fit any and every occasion of the College year. But it is in no such perfunctory spirit that the CRIMSON steps forward today to salute the graduates...
...plays of older days. We like them all the better for the fact. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the United States supreme court, the Hon. Hamilton Fish, Judge Robert Grant, Robert Bacon, the roster is long of those who in their time capered in the Pudding shows. We smile as we notice that Thomas Mott Ocborne once played Helen of Troy, that "Nick" Longworth gave a violin solo one night in 1890, and that Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Company, was a chorus girl upon a time. This year the club offers an amateur musical comedy...
...which proves that the psychology of man stretches up to the very heavens, and that the sun, the clouds, the striding aurora and the scintillating atmosphere interpret his inmost aspirations. We may smile at the awed Indian raising his arms in emotion as the Thunder Bird beckons to him from on high, and at the simple habitant crossing himself before the heavenly apparition of the Maid of Orleans and the martial St. Michael. But we cannot laugh at the emotion which has opened these peoples' eyes to the starry sign. It proves that the awful events which are in progress...
...Empey seems to be that person we have heard about, but never seen--the man who smiles when everything is going wrong. He has the spirit which does not stop because of handicaps. Although he has witnessed the horrors of war and has had to undergo severe hardships, yet he looks back at Mars, and jokes. The man who can smile at his troubles is always well liked...
...sense of humor goes as far beyond this definition as solid geometry beyond plain arithmetic. It consists not only in perceiving the comic, but in searching for it, and at times even creating at. Above all it deals less with the occasional laugh than it does with the constant smile...