Word: witting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...collections of poems written by undergraduates have been compiled from the different college periodicals. The first was published in 1881, and entitled "Elm Leaves," the second appeared in 1889 under the name of "Yale Lyrics." In "Yale Humor" by S. A. York, jr., '90. characteristic bits of Yale wit have been gathered together from the various undergraduate publications. Two stories, entitled respectively "Lloyd Lee, a Story of Yale," and "Four Years at Yale," set forth in a pleasing manner, undergraduate social life. "Sketches of Yale Life," edited by J. Addison Porter, is a compilation of pieces from the Yale...
...shared his belief, that the subject taught connected itself with their higher interests. Urged on as they were by his stringent demands, his students felt his kindness, and enjoyed his lucid and ingenious speech. In him were combined the enthusiasm which rouses the sense of duty which ennobles, the wit which brightens, and the oddity which endears...
...execution, and will be sold by Public Auction, on Wednesday, the 8th day of January, 1890, at 11 o'clock a. m., at the carriage warerooms of Francis L. Chapman, rear of No. 10 Brattle St., near Harvard Sq., in said Cambridge, the following described personal property, to wit: 1 cherry table, cloth top, 1 arm chair, 1 half arm chair, 2 cherry book cases, 1 oak chair, 1 window seat cushion, 1 oak bedstead, 1 bureau, 1 commode, 1 spring bed, 1 hair mattrass, 1 feather pillow, 1 bolster, 1 lounge, 1 sofa pillow, 1 cherry cabinet desk. Being...
...execution, and will be sold by Public Auction, on Wednesday, the 8th day of January, 1890, at 11 o'clock a. m., at the carriage warerooms of Francis L. Chapman, rear of No. 10 Brattle St., near Harvard Sq., in said Cambridge, the following described personal property, to wit: 1 cherry table, cloth top, 1 arm chair, 1 half arm chair, 2 cherry book cases, 1 oak chair, 1 window seat cushion, 1 oak bedstead, 1 bureau, 1 commode, 1 spring bed, 1 hair mattrass, 1 feather pillow, 1 bolster, 1 lounge, 1 sofa pillow, 1 cherry cabinet desk. Being...