Word: joke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very pleasing innovation. Although short, it is one of the best executed pieces in the number on account of the humor and scientific language. Another timely and interesting part is the "All Cambridge Team for 1899," which contains the usual local hits but with unusual variations. The short jokes in prose and verse are very good, but the drawings, excepting the centre page, are not above the ordinary. The series of drawings on "Rowing Experiences, etc." is without point, and the drawing on the last page, although a local touch, has a joke which is to say the least well...
...great many would respond in the same spirit. There always have been such men, doubtless there were in '61, and think what a revulsion they must have had then. In fact it is one thing to take a matter cheerfully though seriouly, and another to consider everything a big joke...
...chosen for their good judgment and ability. A member should either not vote at all or he should vote for the man who seems to him best fitted for the position. To put the name of a man on a ballot merely with the intention of playing a joke on him, is a form of wit that is likely to be little appreciated at Harvard...
...Overture, Rezniceck (first time), overture, "Donna Diana"; Godard, (first time), Suite; Haendel, Largo; Mozart, Turkish March; Mozart (first time), Variations, Richard Strausas (first time), Prelude and Entr'acte, "Guntram"; Tschaikowsky, "Elegie and Valse"; Wagner, "Ride of the Valkyries"; WeberBerlioz, "Invitation to Dance"; Haydn, Variations; Joh. Strauss, (first time), musical joke, "Moto Perpetuo...
...Moto Perpetuo" (Musical Joke), Strauss...