Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Charles A. Eastman will speak on "Indian Wit, Humor, Poetry and Eloquence" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
...number of the Illustrated Magazine opens with some characteristic sentences by Dean Briggs on the President-Elect. Addressed in the first place to a group of students in English 5, these remarks on the election of Mr. Lowell form, in their mingling of grace, frankness, and humor, perhaps the happiest comment so far made on the event which is of so much interest to us all. This event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating...
...something of the sort here, which would give the student a sympathetic friend, not too old, to make his work more a part of his life. "The Purple Patch," set effectively during a water-fete at Marseilles, is a story of no little grim strength relieved by an eerie humor which is very effective. The twisted old grandfather might have stepped from one of Arthur Rackham's weird drawings...
...Some Deeds of Madness" is the best of the three stories, the humorous touch at the close being especially successful. The death in "Success" is not managed cleverly enough to bring out forcibly the irony intended. "The Dinglethorpe Ghost" is not lacking in humor, but the working out of the story is a trifle too obvious. The verse is neither good nor bad--it might be worse, and it ought to be far better. One is loath to believe that the college poet is going the way of the Dodo. The two prose articles, "The National Anthem" and "College Politics...
Miss Adams was fascinating as usual. Her Viola left little to be desired. She wrought into her part a great personal charm, and a pleasing variety of tenderness and petulant humor, thoroughly in sympathy with her role. In all her motions she was grace itself, which comes to Viola as naturally as it does to Babbie and Peter Pan. The audience watched for Miss Adams when she appeared on the stage, but sighed and clapped when she left, and applauded at every opportunity...