Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disfigured the Chapel and the Harvard statue, night before last, by painting in large letters on them the class-name of '87. We have to believe that these acts of vandalisn were committed by '87 men. We have a better opinion of the class. Generally a man whose wit is of such magnitude that he is capable of a deed of this sort, does not long care to display his takent here at Harvard. He finds that his fellow-students do not appreciate fun of that kind. If he does continue, however, in these sorry exbibitions of his wit...
...general play of the eleven, it must be said that there is a woeful want of carefulness. It is the rule, not the exception, for the University to lose the ball when they get it within the college's 25-yard line. There are several reasons for this, to wit; the college understands their plays nearly as well as they do themselves, and then, again, there are five or six rushers who are always unguarded. These excuses are urgent; but yet we must admit that the misplays are oftener due to the inaccurate passing or the inability...
...second number of the Lampoon, just out, is fully up to the first in wit and illustration...
...have decided to allow individual transparencies to be carried. He fears that as the college is so evenly divided there will be about as many transparencies reflecting on Blaine as on Cleveland, and therefore hardly suitable for a Republican procession. The gentleman, however, probably never had the pleasure of witnessing the Harvard delegation in any of the presidential processions, and consequently does not appreciate the meaning of individual transparencies. The wit which is displayed on such transparencies does not confine itself to the small field of national and state politics, but goes out into broader paths and caricatures college customs...
Resoived, That we deeply lament his untimely death, and will every retain an affectionate remembrance of his many endeavoring qualities, his open nature, his ready wit and clear judgment...