Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there was no excitement till the train reached Niagara Falls just at dusk. Even in the fading light the sight was magnificent and as the men stood on the railroad bank there was a visible change in their spirits. All the levity stopped and there was hardly a joke from Niagara to Buffalo. The train was an hour late, making a quick change necessary before the concert, which was well attended. The Buffalo Club gave a dinner after the concert where the fellows watched the old year out. The new year, only too anxious to take its place...
...different nature, but fully as good in its way, is "Roland s Reform." It is thoroughly local in its character, the men in the story - the frank, apparently priggish but really joke-loving friend, and the fellow who indulges in a summer flirtation, unconscious of its serious results - are dyed-in-the-wool Harvard men, and the bits of description are quite cleverly done. The whole thing is true to the life here at Cambridge and the anti-climax is happy. It is perhaps the best thing its author has done this year...
...express my regret at the action of the mass meeting on Tuesday night? Such vacillation proves how little public opinion at Harvard is worth. As matters now stand the undergraduates say to any rowdy or ldiot who may happen to think that daubing red paint is funny: "Have your joke if you must; we will pass resolutions of indignation-but don't let those frighten you; for we will pay all the damages of your vandalism, but will not allow you to be molested." This, in effect, is what the meeting of Tuesday means. When public opinion is thus spineless...
...play portrays the accidents and incidents of a party consisting of father, mother and daughter who undertake a journey from Paris to Dieppe and through a practical joke find themselves the next morning at Paris, whence they had started. The remainder of the play is devoted to the endeavors of the perpetrators of the joke to prevent the party from discovering the trick...