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...Humor Relieves Air of Tragedy...
...prose writing on the whole stands out better than the poetry, in execution and humor. "The Poets in the Bowl" and "How the Spring Came to Hiawatha" are above the average in every respect. Here we have a true professional touch that makes up for the general poetic deficiency...
...magazines, is only mediocre in its remarks, with now and then a dash of brilliancy to relieve the monotony. The jokes, short articles, and longer sketches often exhibit a talent truly surprising in a college publication. Many are forced; many are timeworn; and many lack the truth of real humor, but these are soon forgotten in the keen enjoyment of the majority in which the friendly satire and irresponsible wit is truly delightful...
...sense of humor is one faculty not generally included in the list of amiable qualities that form the make-up of the Turk, but for once he has played his reputation false. The Nationalist leader, Mustafa Kemal has as his representative at the present conference at Lausanne, the general Ishmet Pasha. Now Ishmet's great usefulness lies not so much in the distinction of his services,--though they have been many and great, Allah is witness! for he is a trained diplomat and his recent victories over the Greeks in a military way are credited to strategy of the highest...
Here is Turkish humor with a vengeance. Kemal suggests to the rest of Europe with shrewd wit: "You may debate, and argue, and bargain, but I shall neither hear nor understand you." And this is exactly the attitude which the Turkish Nationalists have assumed since they burst in through Europe's back door by means of the Mudania Pact in October...