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The Spice of The Book

Prof Tolson: "Young man, do you come to the class to sleep?"
Raymond Brown: "Yes, sir; it's the only time I have since I stay up all night getting out your English."
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Roy Black: "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
Bruce: "What is the matter with you?"
Black: "I thought I had found a nickel in my pocket."
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Loving: "People are not buying things they don't need this winter."
Cole: "Of course not, they're selling 'em"
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Prof. Reid: "The discipline committee has decided to give you fifteen demerits."
West: "Well, I will be as good to the discipline committee as they were to me, so here are your demerits. I don't want them."
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Lionel: "Who or what is Easter Sunday?"
Murray: "Easter Sunday is Billy Sunday's sister."
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Hayes: "They don't hang a men with wooden legs."
Cavil: "Why?"
Hayes: "They hang them with ropes."
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Sweet: "How many subjects are you taking?"
Lockhart: "My card shows three, but I'm taking one, and the other two are taking me.
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Two freshmen arriving on campus.

1st. Freshman: "Aren't you the fellow that lived up over the livery stable in New Orleans?"2nd. Freshman: "Yes, aren't you the one that lived below?"
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Prof. Smith: "Mr. Dotson, do you know that Shakespeare wrote the "Merchant of Venice?"
Mr. Dotson: "That's nothing, I wrote the king of Spain, but he didn't answer."