Word: wits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...personal flavor, and a patter of amusing short jokes. The drawings vary from extreme decision where they are decorative to extreme indecision where they are meant to be satirical. It is chiefly in this matter of caricature, and in the verse, that a certain weakness makes itself felt. Wit and humor have a narrow field in a College paper, but a very propitious one, since in College every one is or ought to be merry and everything has a right to seem somewhat novel and absurd. Let us hope the class of 1905, after furnishing the Lampoon with a lawful...
Perhaps the wit of the Lampoon has simply been in want of exercise. If it has been somewhat heavy more than once hitherto, it shows now that it can be very nimble when once awakened...
...editorial on undergraduate literary criticism contains a good deal of wit and some thought. One cannot read the other editorial, on the subject of the defeat by the CRIMSON, without thinking that if the "Lampoons" could play a baseball game as well as they can describe it, the annual score might be less overwhelming...
...present form at Dorset Gardens 1685. Frequent references to America and a detailed description of Virginia, as it was then thought of in England, give the dialogue unusual local interest. In movement "Eastward Ho" is a comedy of manners though its dialogue is informed with the keen wit and subtle humor of which these three Elizabethan poets were masters...
...very amusing, notably the picture on the cover. The jokes seem to be about up to the usual standard and the longer efforts are praiseworthy. The verses are uniformly good and the longer skits, especially those on the faculty meeting and the CRIMSON criticisms are good examples of undergraduate wit...