Word: jesting
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...smoker was a most enjoyable evening, filled with infinite jest; yet I fear Judge Grant in his preamble hit it off very well--"Why not trot the poor old scholar out?" There was a certain sign of patronage for the scholar on the part of the man of the world, in which the poet joined. I should have been glad if the dignity of scholarship had been a bit more emphasized...
Another amusing drawing is that of the Freshman beer night. But the best thing in the number is the drawing and the jest "Handicapped." This is the sort of thing that appears once in a long while; the modest author does not sign his sketch, but he is to be congratulated...
...present number suffers from an excess of timeliness. Jest and youthful jollity are invoked too frequently to celebrate the Junior Dance. Mirth can scarcely preserve her light fantasticality through unlimited Bostons; and small wonder, for as the editorial informs us, "in the Boston the left foot points towards Somerville, while the right aims at the Harvard Bridge...
...drawings, we are privately informed are almost all by the editors. The best is a clever caricature on the first page, which gives point to an ancient jest. The centre page will wake a responsive chord in the breasts of many. "Everybody's Dance" admirably sets forth a social tragedy. There are funny things too in the picture of the "Junior Dance" on the last page...
...most noteworthy verse in the number is a ballad, "The Jest of God," by H. W. Holmes '03. Its movement and poetry are exceptionally well sustained throughout. A misplaced line unfortunately mars the effect in two of the stanzas...