Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lotos-Eaters," as given at the graduates' night performance, the Hasty Pudding Club has at last produced a play which contains situations. The lines are often slow, and the actors are forced to make up by emphasis what the repartee lacks in wit; the villains noisily confide in the audience while the police are down stage; but the complications of a disguised undergraduate acting as guide to his Class Day flame, and getting mixed up with an anarchist plot furnish two acts full of good scenes...
...ignorant London burgesses who applauded them. Naturally, its butts condemned it on its first representation, but it was afterwards revived and became a common stage property during the seventeenth century. Later judgment has held it to be one of the most original of the Elizabethan comedies, both in its wit and biting satire upon the time, and its fantastic plot and humorous drawing of character...
...doctor of laws, at the Commencement of 1832. It bears the signature of Josiah Quincy as President, and, as usual, contains a brief characterization which may be freely translated as follows: "Scholar and true gentleman; skilful portrayer of lands and customs, delighting his readers with the delicacy of his wit or stirring them with the splendor of his diction; who by his many and admirably finished works has won fame for himself and for his country." The diploma is framed, and hangs for the present in the Reading Room of Gore Hall...
Section 1. There shall be TWO STANDING COMMITTEES, to wit: A GOVERNING BOARD, and a Library Committee...
...their Roman ancestors of the Lares and Penates. In keeping with this reverence there is an atmosphere of propriety shown in the home rather than abroad, which is diametrically opposed to our "company manners." Yet this atmosphere of propriety does not in the least preclude high spirits, amiability and wit at home, such as the Frenchman rarely shows outside. The family, in short, is a social organism rather than a collection of individuals as in our country, but at the same time it lacks our broader friendships. Ties of blood are to the Frenchman deeper than ties of affection...