Word: humorously
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...diametrically opposite view from many men who have lately been setting forth their ideas of colleges and college men. He finds that the average student may fairly be called a student, that he posseses a desire for realism and entire naturalness, that he has a keen sense of humor and radiates a generally breezy atmosphere, that for the most part his life and his nature are free from animosity and bitterness and that "he has acquired the fine art of laughing at himself and with himself...
...Humor and Satire...
...English, will deliver the fifth of a series of six free public lectures on "American Traits in American Literature" under the auspices of the Lowell Institute, in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The special subject of today's lecture will be "Humor and Satire...
...utter non-chalance there is nothing like it. Not that the institution is ineffective, for the opposite is known to be true. But the light-hearted air in which one man, not on probation, will attempt to console his delinquent friend, cannot but appeal to the sense of humor. In the minds of the great majority, who are in good standing, probation is but a question of existing for a few months without the privilege of representing the University on teams, casts, or musical clubs. But what a difference in attitude if the afflicted one happens to be a well...
...compare Miss Crimmins's new play "She Knows Better Now" with Miss Lewis's new playlet "That Case of the Joneses." The former is a play of a small central idea expanded with fair success into a three-act play by means of Miss Irwin's broad and contagious humor. The latter is a play of a strikingly original idea cut down or rather left undeveloped till its effect is jeopardized. One is the play of moderately successful expansion; the other the play of unfortunate contraction...