Word: wit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...marked contrast to last year's "Boodle & Co.," this more conservative comic opera pleased the older men by its return to the former style of Pudding theatricals. Its universal appeal, as shown by unanimous and spontaneous applause, lies in the spirited burlesque of Italian and romantic "atmosphere," occasional wit, and warmth of color and musical tone...
...Song," where the themes show considerable power of emotional expression, it is at times too heavy to suit the comic vein. Book and lyrics, by G. Aertsen, Jr., '05, are full of unexpected conceits. Though not always entirely effective, they occasionally rise to a very happy order of wit which is irresistible...
...prepared its speeches. The Harvard speeches, on the other hand, attempted a bolder attack, and seemed more mature in their delivery. The best speaking of the evening was done by R. B. Fosdick of Princeton. Of the Harvard debaters B. V. Kanaley spoke with great fluency and wit, and A. Tulin with commendable power. Princeton's essential argument emphasized the necessity of the development of the individual for his particular career, while Harvard claimed that a student's judgment was not mature enough to choose what is best, and showed that a course of broad culture was the ideal college...
...drawings are better. Most are amusing, many well executed. The centerpiece, is perhaps misplaced, but the almanac is a bit of clever caricature, and the illustrations to an unconvincing chapter of Professor Wendell's life in Paris, as delicate and true in workmanship as they are in wit...
Institutions, Mr. Bryce said, are meant to work for a particular people at a particular time. Not only is there a permanent element in political history to be dealt wit--human nature; there are also other elements which, however, are either local or over changing--environment, the stage of civilization, the state of communication, social classes, racial character, historical antecedents and traditions, religion, and the varying necessity for militarism...