Word: jokingly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Hall, and how my knees shook together at the sight of some figures on the blackboard which looked to me like all the diagrams in my geometry crammed into one. How nervously I laughed when a then unknown gentleman, while explaining the programme of the unhappy days, made a joke. How I rushed on the first opportunity to the fresh air, and sought for consolation in discussing the point of the joke with a friend in misery, until a live Sophomore whom we had the honor of knowing came up and gave us advice upon doing our papers; such...
Reeled from their classic joke...
Student (anticipating the regular joke). Please tell me what verb is omitted in this passage, "Di majorum umbris tenuem et sine pondere terram...
...bully joke...
THEODORE HOOK'S old joke has been played upon a Cambridge student, whose room was overrun not long ago by half the tradesmen in town. Among other articles some silverware and a piano were delivered to him. The Journal thinks the hoax "cruel and childish...