University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Indeed, not all teachers realize the aid given them in their labors by the three fairies. But the students know it; they fully appreciate that the digestion of intellectual food is immensely aided when seasoned with wit and humor, with fun and mirth. This is the reason why this volume has been written, and this is its injunction: ' Understand, enjoy and laugh with But take me not too seriously. MWL

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three fairy angels, one called Wit, the other Humor, and the third Fun; and they had come to help us learn our lessons. Now — I never had seen an angel before and only had heard grandpa speak of the angel who drove him and Grandma Eve from Paradise. So I would have been afraid, but I could not because the three fairies (or angels, I don ' t know which,) at once commenced to tell stories such as we had never heard before and draw such pictures on the big slate as we never had seen. And then they showed us how to dance and jump and do somersaults, and all kinds of nonsense. But the best thing was wdien they took an old broomstick, wrapped some rags around it, which they shaped into legs and arms and put on top an apple (grandma had given it to me; she knows something about apples) which they had cut and fixed up so that it just looked like our old teacher. And when they then made that thing walk just like teacher does, and when one imitated his voice so that you thought you heard him scold and thunder, then suddenly I got such a peculiar feeling in my face as I never had experienced to that day. Before I knew it my whole body commenced to shake and I had to cry out something like: Ha, ha, ha! and in a minute the whole class did the same, only the girls said: He, he, he! and from some of the boys it sounded like: Ho, ho, ho! And the fairies they did the same and called out: ' Now we have taught you to laugh; never forget it and never forget your good friends: Wit, Humor and Fun. ' While we were yet laughing the fairies disappeared, but we were in such a happy frame of mind that we went to work with a will, and when teacher came he was surprised at the result of our labors. We never told him who had helped us. This wonderful inscription on the slate unmistakably proves that Humor, Wit and Fun were born when the first school had been established. And from that day to this they have been fostered and cultivated in all institutions of learning, though chiefly when ' ' teacher is absent. 16

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