Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...testify their approbation by shouts and cat-calls, to give up the habit. It is, no doubt, conducive to harmony and strict time to be interrupted by a well-meant but misplaced war-whoop; but the members of the Parietal Committee prefer to take their music straight. In short, the singing in the Yard must stop, unless the window-critics can refrain from their customary vociferous applause. The habit is boyish enough, at best, and can be relinquished without much trouble. Under the circumstances, we trust that we have heard the last...
...once a week, at the various rooms of the members; by this means the expense of the society is very much lessened. An hour and a half is whiled away in conversation carried on in German, in the use of which language some have attained remarkable proficiency for so short a time. Since everything connected with this club is to be distinctly German, the collations prepared are of a frugal character, and will probably be entirely dispensed with after the first of May. The object of the society is praiseworthy, and it is looked upon by the Professors of Modern...
...hardly strong enough to have a long life, but by careful nursing it may grow and flourish. It wisely ascribes its paternity, not to the whole Institute, but to the class of '75, thus relieving three classes of quite a burden. The best article in it is the editorial, short, well written, and so closely resembling in ideas and language the initiatory one in the Magenta, that we are forced to admire...
...ardor was short-lived, my ecstasy brief...
Doubtless an experienced critic in examining our attempts at drollery would say at once that they were strained, unnatural, from the fact that clearness of style, consistency of thought, in short, all the requisites of finished work, had been sacrificed to the one idea of saying something funny...