Word: punches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Unconscious Repartee.-Uncle Dick (an eminent R. A.)-"Well, Johnny, and what are you going to be?" Johnny-"I shall be a judge, like papa." Uncle Dick-"Ah! but you haven't brains enough, my boy," Johnny-"Oh, then I'll be an artist like you."-[London Punch...
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...London Punch pays the following hearty tribute...
...Passant." - "What are you always thinking about, Ida?" "I'm always thinking about nothing, auntie. I never think about any thing, unless I happen to think of some thing to think about." - [London Punch...
...early as 1834 the custom had begun of the senior class treating everybody with iced punch on class day afternoon. The punch was brought in buckets from Willard's Tavern (now the horse railway station) and served out in the shade on the northern side of Harvard Hall. After a while an odest was added, and then a chorister. After many changes class day has at last become what it is now - the happiest day of the year. May it prove as happy for '82 as it has for previous classes...