Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughly please the public once seems to almost insure the sale of an author's writings past, present and fuure. To wit. A. S. M. Hutchinson...
However, there are places by the way, of many kinds. Lampy's ways never deviate from the path of wit. In our humble way we seek the strange, the murky and the obscure, striving to bring it to the white light of undergraduate opinion, distinguished and almost extinguished by the "Gadfly". Success, inspired by those great names which have already contributed to the greatness of the Century Dictionary,-D, E. Fels: Felt G. Hoon; and R. Simulant, seems almost in sight. The does is done. All contributions received will help to perpetrate, and perpetuate, the "Crime...
...Princeton wit, replying to the charge often made against the "New Jersey prep-school," says that Princeton is not a "country club. It is a roadhouse,--on the Road to Knowledge." We cannot claim more for ourselves than that. But it remains for the Dartmouth Investigation of Time to give a cross-section showing the life of the college as it is, with athletics, studies, and the much-misused word "activities" in their, proper proportions. Only when statistics like these are brought to the surface, is it possible to go beyond the title "Institution of Learning...
Among the most interesting work is some of Mr. Cowley's. His "Chateau de Soupir" has a dry poetic wit that is delightful; and the successful capturing of atmosphere in his "Mountain Farm" makes it one of the most beautiful poems in the book...
...future numbers are up to the standard of the one we have seen. It is our sincere hope that many more numbers of the "Cambridge Charivarl" will be published, that the pictures of its succeeding issues will be as good as those of the first, that the wit will always to be fresh, and, finally, that the "Lampoon" will become one of the permanent institutions of the college. February...