Word: spiced
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Infirmary, but during the past few months, I think, we have all welcomed extra pages. This time the twelve additional pages of reading matter not to mention the new advertisements--make the paper just long enough to carry us joyously through the intermissions at the Game, to add the spice of laughter to our content or to lighten--but the Lampoon nowhere suggests gloom...
...scarcity of personal anecdote; nearly everything is said in the generalized form of "characterizations"; the well-known story of an early Faculty meeting in the Medical School, quoted from Dr. Holmes' life in Thayer's two pages, is the only exception. Evidently another series of articles, with a larger spice of personal reminiscence, might follow this one. Some of the chapters might be: the President as a summer housekeeper, by a native of Mt. Desert; the President as a guest at Harvard Clubs, by old graduates all over the country; how I have changed my opinion about the President...
...selections have a strong spice of college flavor, and especially of that period of the College when all the undergraduates knew one another and the College papers had not acquired too much dignity to enjoy running a few pointed personal "roasts." Again, many of the selections are decidedly above the average of undergraduate verse, for instance, Garrison's poem "On the Skull Ensconced in a College Room" which is doubly sinister when one remembers the early death of that promising poet...
...Under the Sofa" might be called the spice of the literary dish which Mother Advocate sets before the college this time - for it is a vivacious dialogue with touches here and there of true Lampoon wit. The hero of the sketch is obliged by force of circumstances to remain under a sofa in a room where an afternoon tea is going on, and amusing complications naturally ensue...
...members of N. H. 6 are required to write a thesis for tomorrow's recitation, but at present each one is in a predicament as regards the exact subject given out. The result will probably be a great amount of variety, if not of spice, in the essays...