Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...JOHN A. STEVENS of New York has sent the Library some old volumes, among which is an odd edition of "The History of Pausimna," and Lylie's "Anatomy of Wit...
...Brantingham received a windy rigmarole of a legal summons to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and show cause why he should not forfeit the sum of pound 20 in that he did 'in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five to wit, at Christ Church, Oxford, wear and use Armorial Bearings, for the wearing and using of which a license was required, without having a proper license...
...President, Mr. Swift, called the company to order shortly after nine o'clock, and gave for the first toast, "The Class of '77," to which Mr. Denny, the Vice-President of the Institute, replied. After a song, Mr. Burr, the orator of the evening, delivered an oration sparkling with wit. This was followed by a poem, read by Mr. Barrett Wendell, and which may safely be pronounced the feature of the literary exercises...
...Poem" in the Bowdoin Orient is one of the best college productions that we have ever seen. Real wit and real poetry are shown in no common degree...
Several years ago, our malignant contemporary, the Corinth Daily Herald, indulged in considerable cheap wit at the expense of the great and good Socrates. We will admit that as a base-ball player his career was hardly successful; but even his bitterest enemies must confess that nature certainly intended him for a clown, and we defy Corinth or any other Peloponnesian village to produce his equal in that capacity...