Word: witness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...orders of the templars were voluntary associations, and have their counterpart in many of our organizations of to-day. The word University is often missed or misunderstood. The latin Universitas means nothing more than corporation. Universities are but corporations. There was not any necessary assemblage of brain or wit in one place in order to form an University...
...lone Indian freshman," of 1636," and on the other side, the fierce declaration - "Here we are, '90. Look out!" coupled with the calm assertion that "90 is the brightest class in many a year." A bulletin signed "C. J.," another proof of the extreme subtlety of freshman wit, warned all students from entering the yard during the celebration. Still another asserted that the college had been "waiting for '90, 250 years;" this was unaccompanied by any statistics showing the in corresponding depression of the college for the first two hundred and forty-nine years of its birth, till, now that...
...society should have taken the preliminary steps for such an enjoyable reunion as these events always are. The gentlemen who have been chosen to officiate at the dinner are in every way qualified to do their parts admirably, and to make the dinner a brilliant one in point of wit and music, as well as in other respects. To have the dinner an entire success, the whole Institute should attend in a body, and make the second of June a red-letter day in the annals of sophomore reunions...
...annual dinner of the Lampoon was held last night and was thoroughly enjoyed by all present. The after dinner speeches were distinguished by their bright wit an 1 humor...
...course the exertions used, to make class dinners as entertaining as possible, are in some measure responsible for the state of the desire to attend these dinners. But surely class dinners have always been the call for an amount of eloquence, wit, and jollity that on its own merits invites attendance. The college has many ways of keeping college spirit alive; the class has fewer, and certainly among these few, there is not one that answers its purpose so well as the dinner. Therefore, however much we may be engrossed with our own particular set, let us not forget that...