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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...JOHN A. STEVENS of New York has sent the Library some old volumes, among which is an odd edition of "The History of Pausimna," and Lylie's "Anatomy of Wit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...Brantingham received a windy rigmarole of a legal summons to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and show cause why he should not forfeit the sum of pound 20 in that he did 'in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five to wit, at Christ Church, Oxford, wear and use Armorial Bearings, for the wearing and using of which a license was required, without having a proper license...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

...President, Mr. Swift, called the company to order shortly after nine o'clock, and gave for the first toast, "The Class of '77," to which Mr. Denny, the Vice-President of the Institute, replied. After a song, Mr. Burr, the orator of the evening, delivered an oration sparkling with wit. This was followed by a poem, read by Mr. Barrett Wendell, and which may safely be pronounced the feature of the literary exercises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORE SUPPERS. | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

...Poem" in the Bowdoin Orient is one of the best college productions that we have ever seen. Real wit and real poetry are shown in no common degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

Several years ago, our malignant contemporary, the Corinth Daily Herald, indulged in considerable cheap wit at the expense of the great and good Socrates. We will admit that as a base-ball player his career was hardly successful; but even his bitterest enemies must confess that nature certainly intended him for a clown, and we defy Corinth or any other Peloponnesian village to produce his equal in that capacity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHENIAN HIPPODROME. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

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