Word: comically
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...pamphlet, with the exception of the play that was read in Greek 6, and this course was open only to those who had attained considerable proficiency in reading. We were therefore glad to see on the new pamphlet another course opened to undergraduates, who are fond of the great comic poet. It is to be hoped that the necessary steps will be taken by the Faculty to enable the good as well as the mediocre student to enjoy...
...suppose it is our duty to say something about the Cornell comic paper, Cocague. Some of the illustrations are good, some are not good, and of the letterpress none is good. However, we must not decide hastily, and if the tinge of vulgarity which is perceptible in this number disappears in the next, we may be led to a more favorable opinion of this new venture...
...there he sat through it. It was like seeing a child at a pantomime, to watch him. He would laugh at the comic songs, and, ye Gods! he cried at the sentimental ones...
...Paris; consequently the clumsy amazons and pages, and the crude, undrilled comedians, do not amuse you at all. You yawn and look about you. Not far off is Smith, with open eyes and open mouth, enjoying himself to his heart's content. He catches your eye as the comic man gets off a pun as stupid as the jokes of a circus clown; and he leans across and remarks that it is bully. You smile and nod, and are pleased with the contrast between your own acute perception of the humorous and that of the Occidental intellect of Smith. Between...
...unwilling, however, to accept the statement without a struggle. If there is on the staff of the "comic journal" a Mr. Digby who asks questions of instructors to give the impression that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest...