Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Swiss Family Robinson," by Owen Wister, which many will remember as a very bright travestry in the Lampoon last year, has been published in a neat form by Mr. Sever. The local hits are very clever, and the little work well deserves a place as an odd piece of literary bric-a-brac in every student's library...
...team, and all expenses are met by them. The influence of Harvard induced Columbia, Princeton and the College of the City of New York to organize teams and form an association. Yale, Amherst and other colleges have taken up the sport, which bids fair to have a bright future. Feeders to college teams in the shape of lacrosse clubs at the preparatory schools will prove of value in entering the field ready for play instead of being obliged to develop a team from crude material. In every college and school there are those who, not interested in base-ball...
...book is witty, full of bright sayings and well adapted to quotation. The account of the sermon in the church at Dale is very amusing and familiar to every one who has ever heard an Orthodox minister of the old school...
...good example of the bright wit and keen sense of humor of that eminent and well-known comedian, Wm. Warren, of the Museum company, is the following: Mr. Fred Vinton, Boston's promising young portrait painter, and a personal friend of the comedian's, on his return from Spain a few days ago met Mr. Warren in the Parker House, and said, as they were speaking of the plays then in progress, "By the way, Mr. Warren, while I was in New York I went to see Jefferson as Bob Acres in the 'Rivals.' Jefferson himself was, of course...
...should be the aim of others to convert such opponents to their own faith. At Harvard especially, where so great an interest is taken in all historical and economic studies, the formation of such an association would seem especially advisable and its prospects for success particularly bright. Participation in practical politics is certainly the duty of all educated men, and in this matter especially their efforts might be most appropriately put forth...