Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Higginson is well known to us all. Of Gen. Swift, we would like to say that a more amusing speaker, a better story teller, has rarely appeared before American audiences. He is often compared with John B. Gough in the vividness of his illustration and in his ready wit. Now there is no doubt that a very large audience will be present. Why was not Sanders Theatre secured for this evening instead of Sever 11? We feel sure that Sever 11 will be crowded to its utmost capacity, and there is a strong probability that many students will be unable...
...Andrew P. Peabody writes the preface for this book. He says it is "rodolent of genius, wit and poetic inspiration." Professor Charles Eliot Norton said of the first volume published in 1876, "Consule Planco," as Thackeray would say, which means, when Mr. Quincy was president. "I don't think we wrote on the average such good verses as these." All who have seen the selections for the forthcoming volume, consider that it is as far superior to the first volume as the University of to-day has outgrown the University of twenty years ago. The dedication is "To the founders...
...present with giving the country sound law through her Chief Justice Waite, enacting wise laws by her Senator Evarts, constructing a navy worthy of our rank among nations and our proper defence through her Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, and rising to the best traditions of the diplomacy, scholarship, wit and eloquence of the American embassy to England through her Minister Phelps. 'Rah to Yale...
...given out that the freshmen of the University of Penn. have adopted a class yell in the words and figures that follow, to wit: "M - D - CCC - YC of P. - Rah-rah-rah', This is undeniably magnificent, but it lacks the sturdy simplicity of the war-whoop which was adopted by the gentlemen who preceeded us on this continent. - N. Y. Tribune...
...Both for wit and knowledge...