Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spectacte and caused no end of amusement. Finally the train started. The rattle-brained porter became more and more perplexed and even the mildest natures in the car used their superlative expressions very freely. About midnight, after a storm of boots and valises, and the flow of oratory and wit. things quieted down a bit, the last few pairs of feet disappeared behind the curtains the e were a few last groans of dissatisfaction and the first night on the cars fairly began...
...experience. "Alone on Chocarna at Night." Edward Everett Hale continues his pictures of a "New England Boyhood;" Marion Crawford concludes "Don Orsino" and Mr. W. H. Bishop has another of his papers on "An American at Home in Europe." Miss Agnes Repplier has an attractive article on "Wit and Humor", filled with bright and clever little touches...
Walter C. Nichols '93 formerly editor of the CRIMSON is one of the two editors of Quips, a weekly just started in Buffalo "devoted to wit, humor, society, drama, music...
...Senior class. Oration by Devereux of Salem, poem by young Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this town. He is both young and small in distinction from the others, and on these circumstances he contrived to cut some good jokes. His poem was very happy and abounded with wit. Instead of a spiritual muse, he invoked for his goddess the ladies present, and in doing so he sang very amusingly of his "hapless amour with too tall a maid...
...brightest bit in the number - for its author is mindful of the old adage, that "brevity is the soul of wit" - is the first of the College Kodaks. It is a clever parody on the style of criticism which permeates the English department in general and which seems to be the particular hobby of English B and English 12 instructors in particular. In view of the character of the parody, one almost feels tempted to dub its author a "tonsorial artist." Although this first of the Kodaks out-ranks the rest, the second and third are worthy of notice...