Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second bout of light-weight sparring was the cause of much laughter. The good nature of the audience was only exceeded by that of the contestants...
...better still - it has caught the spirit of true manliness, and will find an answering sympathy in more breasts than those of 'the fast set.' It is tender; it is joyous; it is beautiful; it is noble. Fresh from the reading of it, our heart still brimming over with laughter and with tears, our brain still teeming with - no! we will not believe them the creatures of imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced...
This pleasing and laughter-provoking sketch book of Harvard doings has, for more than a year, been out of print. During this time the demand for it has increased, and, to meet this demand, a new edition is now proposed, provided a sufficient number of copies is guaranteed. This book is a series of pictures of college life, and one, too, that is ever interesting to look over. The edition will be limited, and, in order to secure a copy of the work, it will be necessary to place your name upon the subscription list, which can be found...
...occasion, responded to the toast of the class of '84. His speech was well received. After another selection by the quartette Mr. Chapman read the poem. He made many amusing hits at various members of the class. The reading of the poem was interrupted by frequent bursts of laughter and applause. Mr. Mumford then read the ode amidst great enthusiasm. Then the toast-master, Mr. Goodwin, gave toast after toast, all of which received apt replies. The toasts were as follows...
...bounds of fairness, not to say of humanity. Such actions can be called nothing less than brutal; and the sooner the college press states in plain terms the character of the deed, and its opinion of such actions, the sooner will it become no longer a matter of laughter among college men for barbarous tortures, bullying, and branding of arms to be resorted to as a means of vengeance by irate upper class men. There has been a time when hazing was a harmless and good-natured diversion of college boys. But that was when college students were distinctly boys...