Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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College literary magazines generally meet like two dogs, but the June Monthly makes its comprehensive review of similar publications a helpful discussion of just what such publications should aim to be; and finally works out a very satisfactory creed--to wit: "A magazine which makes sensationalism or journalism or propaganda its first concern has no right to the name literary"; and again: "We aim, not to be professional, or in any cheap ways distinguished, but only to be as excellent as possible in the field of amateur literature." So, if amateurs in literature can do as well as they have...
...only fault of the haphazard arrangement however. At present if all the courts are in use men wander over the field to find out which court will first be vacant. One pair of players may spend ten minutes looking at the time boards and have to wit half an hour for a court, while another pair, more fortunate, may find the first court they strike available in ten minutes. In the long run, luck may be as favorable to one man as another, but f it is agreed that courts should be allotted to players in the order of their...
...long ago the Lampoon burst forth in strains of well pre-meditated wit upon that "Home of Discomfort" and "Place of Pain" Sever 11. Yesterday our attention was directed to the occasion when first the CRIMSON found fault with conditions as they existed in this Hall...
...Golden Pheasant, both speaking in a curiously labored and mannered diction. Others of the birds and animals were occasionally comprehensible; and the Blackbird, through the mouth of Mr. Leuers and the Dog through that of Mr. Trader, actually gave character and tang to their speeches. Sometimes there was wit but very seldom poetry in what they said. Rostand and his changing speeches, his teeming wit, his birds as wise or as foolish, as generous or as selfish as humans, were far away--fully the three thousand miles that separate Boston from Paris. Of course, there was Miss Adams instead. What...
...spontaneous satire of this sketch is that irresponsible wit of undergraduates which is usually ignorant, sometimes cheap, yet often the arrow to the bull's-eye. When the Advocate wishes to be amusing it can be the most so in this vein. Otherwise, the issue invites the remark of a biographer of Hawthorne in the period when that author was journalizing over the progress of his cabbages and carrots: "There seemed to be a general vacancy in the range of his vision...