Word: humorically
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...addition to the growlers, a professional entertainer will be present to bark away at the latest songs and tell what he considers to be the funniest stories in the world. He is reputed to have a wonderful sense of humor, so that he should leave nothing to be desired. Seniors will also have an opportunity to purchase the posters which have decorated the Square for the last couple of days because they are to be sold to the highest bidders. Besides their intrinsic value, the posters will afford a means of paying for some of the dogs, which is something...
...subjects have supplied more lasting material for our esteemed fellow contemporary, the Lampoon, than the bitter contests in the libraries which precede the tests in the large reading courses. There is considerable humor in the picture of a University member--and this is a true story--hurrying to the Boston Public Library by taxicab to secure a copy of a dollar and a half book which he is required to read by the following morning. Yet nearly every undergraduate, although his remedy may have differed, has been in much the same plight...
...much criticism for alleged reckless operating--was a physician very conservative himself in the matter of operations. This conservatism was a dominant mental trait, of a piece with his rather reserved personality, under which, however, for those who know him well, flowed a vein of genial humor. It was often remarked that he and the late Dr. Maurice Richardson were the close friends they were "by the law of opposites...
...indifference: A senior once languidly remarked, as he entered Appleton Chapel to hear the Baccalaureate Sermon, "Well this is the first and last time I'll go in here;" and a Junior once admitted, when asked where the College Chapel was, that he did not know. Pathetic, yes, and humorous, but a kind of pathos and humor that can make hypocrites of a good many of us. For several years after compulsory Chapel was abolished, such episodes might have been expected, for a reaction is normal after any ailment. Undoubtedly the next Count at Harvard will convulse us with tales...
...conclusion Mr. Noyes read three more poems, "The Highwayman" a romantic ballad, "The Forty Singing Seamen" a farciful narrative of much humor, and a poetic presentation of "The Creation...