Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exist to the extent in which it is here represented. It is the privilege of all poetry to exaggerate." Harvard then, as now, also was the victim of envy and slander. How bravely and unconcernedly she has borne it all these years! We give a specimen of the wit of the Register on the subject of "Cutting in all its Branches," a justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college: "We cut our teeth in the cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens-and, at last...
...character, judging from the large audiences that have attended at the Museum, and from the large advance-sale of seats for the next week, during which the same piece is to be presented. While it has been greatly weakened in the translation, and deprived of much of the characteristic wit of Sardou, it is still a very amusing play...
...would again call attention to the project of the Lampoon board, of reprinting the best illustrations of the first series of that unique paper. It is several years since the paper was started, and there are very few men in college who are familiar with the wealth of keen wit so aptly expressed in these sketches. Their collection in book form will be a characteristic and amusing souvenir of college life...
...their masquerade, were baulked by Mr. Wilde, who had been given an inkling that something was in the wind; therefore he waited until they made their appearance. He was not at all disconcerted by their presence, but was really amused, and in his introduction he turned his quick Irish wit against them, his playful, good-humored treatment of the affair gaining him the good-will of the audience at once. To the credit of the lads, they sat quietly and attentively through the evening." The Advertiser coincided with the Herald and said: "The tedium of the long wait was pleasantly...
...Board, at the request of a large number of its subscribers, have determined to reprint, in pamphlet form, all the best sketches of the First Series. The Lampoons of the first series are now out of print, and this is the only means of obtaining copies of the college wit which has done so much to brighten college life. Subscription books will be opened at Sever's and at Bartlett's next Monday. Only a limited number of these books will be published, and the subscription price will be $1.00 per copy...