Word: joking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Times grows facetions over the matter of college "jokes." They are all, it says, of immemorial age, and are clearly of vandal, not of classic origin. "The college faculties do not yet seem to have perceived the extreme humor of the college joke. What they ought to do is to join in it themselves with great energy and with the help of a few humorous policemen and a witty magistrate. Let them kidnap a few sophomores, just as the latter are returning from the kidnapping of a freshman. Let the kidnapped sophomores be brought before the witty magistrate...
...this was the first opportunity that the freshmen have taken for making themselves conspicuous in the eyes of the public, a few comments clipped from the columns of the Boston papers may be of interest to our readers. Nearly all are of the opinion that it was a good joke, and nothing more. The Herald of Wednesday morning said: "None of the Harvard boys made any disturbance upon entering. All sat quietly throughout the lecture, and, save by their absurd dress, they were a credit to the audience. . . . The intention of the immature young persons from the Harvard freshman class...
...line of most of those who are called upon to take it in charge. Then, again, though the faculty at Yale may at rare intervals afford the students amusements, to ask them, or any other faculty to undertake the business of providing regularly attractive amusements, is no joke...
...time two '85 men greased the railroad tracks, and, thinking it a good joke, boasted of it to their friends. When, however, they found out that it was a criminal offence, and that two detectives were on their track, they left town by the next train and have not since been heard from...
...known by any other title? Yes-ah, he-ah is sometimes called a cultuahed gentleman-ah. Does he study Greek? I should-ah say that he did-ah. He pwayed in Oedipus-ah lawst yeah. What did he play? He pwayed the curtains up awnd down-ah. Joke ah! Ha-ha-ah? What makes him part his hair in the middle? Only a step-ah in the cawse of his development-ah. Development into what? Into womanhood-ah. Another joke ah, be Jove-ah. By-the-way, what does he think of Emerson's idea of the non-combustibility...