Word: joking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This remarkable volume contains on the last page an immense amount of pencil flourishing by John M. Goodwin of S. Boston, who adds by way of a joke, "Nicholas of Russia." Thus closes the first book used in Harvard College as a vistors' register. It, however, was the private property of Prof. Webster, and only came into possession of the college through the kindness of John Langdon Sibley, years after the death of its owner. About ten years after Prof. Webster's book was closed Volume I. of the register for visitors to Harvard College Library was opened in January...
...practical joke was recently played on the editors of the Amherst Olio, the illustrated annual of the juniors, presumably by one of the victims of their satire, in summoning them before the president one evening, only to find him ignorant of the whole affair...
...Yale News.We suppose there is a "grind" in the above; will the News please explain its joke...
...Yale News, in its issue of Nov. 3. Neither the editor-in-chief, nor any other editor of the Argo, ever sent any communication whatsoever to the managing or other editor of the Amherst Student. The letter printed by the latter, as coming from Williams, was simply a huge joke in the Student's usual ponderous style, and was evidently taken by the over-zealous News as sober earnest...
...Advertiser, the solemn old Advertiser, is guilty of the following feeble little joke : "There is a 'Champaign University' in this country. But it is not the one you mean on the banks of the Charles, but in Illinois." Poor Advertiser...