Word: witness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...papers and her own sterility in this line. The Yale Lit. says, enviously : "We cannot, of course, ever hope to rival Harvard in this respect. She is too excruciatingly funny. But in our own way we may in time be able to publish something worthy of the name of wit. This hope, we think, is justified by the News' Wednesday supplement and the "log" items in the Courant and Record." That strange delusion that Yale men cherish that the News supplements are really witty and humorous seems to be growing stronger and stronger...
...exercises, where Benjamin Emilius had delivered a paper on "The Liability of Meteors to Influence Civilization," a subject that would do credit to the choice of a Professor in "Themes" in this vicinity. "Miss Jennie Smith delivered the class prophecy, in which the town peculiarities were handled with discriminating wit and severity" (vid. the report in the next morning's edition of the Saug Centre Phoenix), and the exercises were closed by a performance of the "Hussar's Charge" on six pianos...
...second humorous extra of the Yale News arrived yesterday. The wit displayed is simply stupendous...
...call it rubbish and rot, and I claim that I am not too severe in doing so. Doleful writing makes doleful reading, and the Crimson and Advocate are reponsible for many dolorous pangs among their readers. I claim that I have a fair sense of humor and can appreciate wit when I see it; but if any unprejudiced judge will call an even majority of these articles humorous or witty, then I will yield myself utterly stupid and without the power of discrimination. I appreciate the straits in which editors are sometimes placed for copy, but I by no means...
...precursor of much of current college wit may, perhaps, be recognized in a bright dialogue in this book on "The Day Before Commencement," with its scene located in "No. 4 Holworthy." The following good advice is given during the course...