Word: joking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen were arraigned and convicted. The sentence passed was that the number '91 should be painted in vermillon on a conspicious part of the persons of the accused freshmen. In the execution of the sentence, however, water was used instead of vermilion paint. The freshmen did not regard the joke in so agreeable a light as the rest of the college did, particularly as the sophomores had made trouble at their class dinner, a short time before. Accordingly, by way of revenge, they formed a plot against the sophomore who had acted as judge at the trial of the three...
Within the last fortnight several persons have seen fit to use the columns of the CRIMSON as a means of playing practical jokes on their class-mates. Notices of hour examinations and meetings have been inserted, which had no foundation whatever, and yesterday some practical joker inserted a special notice without any authority for so doing. There is absolutely no excuse for such nonsense; it exceeds the bounds of childishness, it is undignified and ungentlemanly. It has always been our policy to aid the students in every possible way by publishing notices of their meetings and other notices...
...sincerely trust it is not, we blush with shame to think that one of our number can be guilty of an act so small, so utterly beneath contempt, and, worse than all, so morally wrong. The writer of the signature may have thought that he was perpetrating a huge joke in thus attempting to deceive whoever might look over the register; but a short residence among us would soon teach him that such an act is not funny; it is fresh...
...meat croquettes (vulgarly called by some hash), are of an inferior qualiand the milk is growing thinner and thinner. One of the chaps got off quite a joke on it the other day. He said that the cow that gave that milk must have been suffering with the disease known as water on the brain. He was immediately carried from the table on the shoulders of the crowd and also received the election as humorous editor of the Lampoon...
...drawings in "Life"; yet as a whole, more finished and pleasant. Each is accompanied by its scrap of conversation, which we read, of course, and then laugh at abstractedly as we look again at the drawing that has as much to do with anything else as the joke attached to it. It is strange that this society picture with its inane joke dangling below should be so popular. Yet "The Lorgnette" is better than the usual collection of the sort, and will undoubtedly amuse its owner for twenty minutes, - perhaps all it was intended...