Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half a dozen supporters took up the line of march for Springfield, where they spent Saturday night and Sunday at the Massasoit House. Saturday evening the enthusiastic travellers went to the theatre and helped to fill the small house. The performance, "May Blossom." was the source of much "innocent merriment," and the renowned artiste, Miss Georgia Cayvan in title role, gained much applause...
...their part toward entertaining the crowd on the pier, - that is their crew did, - but the usual number of excited freshmen went rambling through the boat house, asking the difference between a shell and a barge, or a sliding-seat and a stretcher; and one verdant youth created much merriment by remarking that "our crew isn't rowing badly at all," and then pointing to '86 making their way slowly down the river...
...with. Allen reached the top in 22 seconds. Pudor, who went up alone, made it in 22 3-4 seconds. Foster did not reach the top at all. Allen's record was better than that made by Marquand last year. so that it stands as the Harvard record. Much merriment was displayed, when at the end "Jim" came sliding down and caught in a safety rope...
Then came an account of the teachers and associates of his youth, of his studies at the Invalides in Paris, and the noted physicians who taught there, an account which was the basis of many anecdotes and pleasantries of a professional nature that caused much merriment among his hearers. His "Show of Ghost" (as he termed it) being over, he finished with some practical remarks on the way in which the science was tending, and indulged in some pleasant sarcasms on the building now occupied by the school and the new building, a promised land which they were soon...
Subject for merriment...