Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jewett's "A March Island," and Mrs. Oliphant's "A Country Gentleman," render the Atlantic for January a remarkable number. Oliver Wendell Holmes begins a series of papers (to be continued throughout the year) entitled "A New Portfolio," and the first number is full of the old time charm, wit, pathos, and other delightful qualities of the genial Autocrat. Articles of literary interest are a thoughtful study of "Childhood in Greek and Roman Literature," by Horace E. Scudder; and a paper by Richard Grant White on "The H Malady in England." Two pictures of New England life-"A Salem Dame...
...liberty so often taken in getting off these "grinds." Another reason possibly why such a publication as the Aegis is successful in the smaller colleges, is that the smaller colleges have fewer papers, certainly nothing like the Harvard Lampoon, and therefore supply the need in another way. College wit has to break out somewhere, if not in a Lampoon, in an Aegis...
...Dartmouth and other colleges. Our "Index" is for use and convenience only, but such a publication as the "Aegis" not only embodies a full college directory, but has hard "grinds" on the students and the faculty as well, sketches of college life, cartoons, and so on. All the wit, wisdom, and ingenuity of the year is crammed into it. Sometimes the results are remarkably good, sometimes they are equally poor. Doubtless the publication is looked forward to by the students with a great deal of interest, and, it is to be supposed, on the part of many with no small...
...reading indeed-to Dartmouth Men. The personal "grinds" in the "Aegis" are almost without number. "Nominibus onusis" here are some of them, "-, 'asinus asinorum'; -, 'I had rather tell ten lies than say a word of truth' -, 'Great Bacchus is my deity." These grinds are doubtless the soul of Dartmouth wit. We may well pity the subjects of them...
...style of writing demanded, they would be able to produce occasional articles which would be accepted by the "Lampoon." Surely in a university of 1500 men, there is more than one man who is able and willing to contribute to keep up the high standard of Harvard wit and humour hither-to displayed by the "Lampoon...