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But sure it is, they had their day:
THE President's Report and the Catalogue have again formed the subject for a criticism from some writer who has had an article of some length published in a recent number of the College Courant. The fact that it has attained undue publicity by finding a place in the columns...
But since it is so difficult to be witty, are we to give up the attempt, and devote ourselves to a style of composition as devoid of humor as a statute-book? Certainly not. If we have not the wit to elicit an appreciative smile from our readers, we at...
Doubtless an experienced critic in examining our attempts at drollery would say at once that they were strained, unnatural, from the fact that clearness of style, consistency of thought, in short, all the requisites of finished work, had been sacrificed to the one idea of saying something funny.
Pat's experience with his pig was, that when he would drive him to Cork, the pig was determined to take the road to Limerick; and only when his master urged him on, and told him he had chosen the shortest route after all, did the obstinate beast turn himself...