Word: joking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there early in the morning but by chapel time it had mysteriously disappeared. This morning, however, it was hoisted higher up in the tree and at noon it still hung there, causing the wrath of the Bones men to boil within them, while everybody else laughed immoderately at the joke. - [Yale...
...Transcript has the following ponderous joke: "It appears that his excellency's prodding of the Harvard Medical School is to find out whether the Harvard 'LL. D.' is worth accepting...
...follows: "The total absence of any sense of humor among the students of American colleges is a very curious phenomenon. From the time that the American youth enters college until he graduates he rarely gives the slightest evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth, or the illustrated supplement which the Yale News formerly...
Plagiarism is rampant. The Columbia Spectator, in its last issue, in a scene of a street Arab pursuing a fashionable, copies an old Punch joke of Charles Keene's, published several years ago. Harper's Bazar also lacks originality and copies a late joke from the Lampoon, entitled "Etiquette - 'But I can't let ye up stairs till ye've put yer name in the dish,'" with a drawing almost facsimile of the original, without, it is needless to add, due credit being given. All of which affords interesting reflections upon the degeneracy of public morals...
...sights which they of course, never have a chance of beholding elsewhere. There was a time, as some people may remember, when the introduction of railways into the sacred precincts of Alma Mater was considered equally dangerous to the purity of the undergraduate mind. The best of the joke is that though proper plays may be forbidden, it is probably not in the power of the vice-chancellor or any body else to stop the half-circus, half-music-hall performances which always step into the place of the ousted drama. - [Pall Mall Gazette...