Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...impromptu hunt occurred the other day through the open spaces of a well-filled lecture-room, in which the Professor, the Assistant-Professor, and a very large hound - supposed to have some "blood" in him - took prominent parts. The hound was finally captured and thrust into the adjoining-laboratory; he has not been seen since, and is supposed to be missing...
...Thanksgiving Jubilee, and the Courant and Record gladly fill their columns with the nonsense characteristic of the occasion. If an address on the "Ramifications of the Forensic Hyperbla," relying for its wit on poor spelling and lack of punctuation, be a sample of the performances, we cannot wonder that impromptu diversions in the way of bean and flour contests were acceptable to the audience. For a real "jolly wow" give us a Yale merrymaking...