Funnybone

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An Ad that tickled my Funnybone Zoe Brain 2006

For a man who, two years before, had never heard of a Jayhawker, who hoped the barren prairies would furnish seclusion for profound research in his library, and whose interest in the student body lay in its material to furnish "types," Dean Burgess, on the outside, certainly measured up well toward the stature of the real Dean -- broad-minded, beloved "Funnybone."

A Master's Degree 1913

But the mind and soul "Dean Funnybone" had helped to shape.

A Master's Degree 1913

Being a young man, he took himself full seriously, and it was a tremendous blow to his sense of dignity when the youthful Jayhawkers at the outset dubbed him "Dean Funnybone" -- a name he was never to lose.

A Master's Degree 1913

"Funnybone, that's what the boys call you, ain't it?"

A Master's Degree 1913

Meanwhile the big boy from the western claim was as surely going up the rounds of culture as the Professor was coming down to the common needs of common minds, and both were unconscious then that back of each was Dr. Fenneben, "dear old Funnybone" to the student body, playing each man for his king row in the great game of life fought out in Sunrise-by-the-Walnut.

A Master's Degree 1913

The first class to enter the school nicknamed its head "Dean Funnybone," but this gave him no shock any more.

A Master's Degree 1913

But the mind and soul "Dean Funnybone" had helped to shape.

A Master's Degree Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

Dr. Fenneben, "dear old Funnybone" to the student body, playing each man for his king row in the great game of life fought out in

A Master's Degree Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

Being a young man, he took himself full seriously, and it was a tremendous blow to his sense of dignity when the youthful Jayhawkers at the outset dubbed him "Dean Funnybone" -- a name he was never to lose.

A Master's Degree Margaret Hill McCarter 1899