Word: punching
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...happen to know, who has lately taken upon himself the charge of reporting private matters of the college in a daily paper is also the one who attempted to palm off upon the Magenta, as his own production, a poem which appeared first in Punch and afterwards in certain papers in this country. Reference to this Freshman, who is so apt at "dashing off other people's productions," will be found in the second number of the Magenta. We are perhaps too merciful in withholding his name...
...hero Bulwer seems to be thoroughly at home, taking as much delight in him as any reader will do, and through him giving expression to the choicest bits of learning and wisdom which he had himself acquired throughout his long, busy, and thoughtful life. There is a picture in Punch of a little girl, discovering that her doll is stuffed with sawdust, exclaiming that the world is hollow and that she wants to be a nun. So Kenelm Chillingly very early in life discovers that everything is vanity or humbug, and falls into that cynicism of the nobler sort, - possible...
...when he told some tale of wild pranks after a punch, when the royal upper-classmen had been served from a huge bowl by trembling Freshmen, their fags, dragged from warm beds to grace their lords' festivities, his eye sparkled and blazed with a youthful fire, and he seemed a boy again. With what glee did he tell of Harvard's one fire-engine, first at all fires (when perfectly convenient), drawn by a crowd of yelling students, and whose cold streams, when fires were less frequent and the student mind needed gentle relaxation, were often turned upon the windows...