Word: sarcasms
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...composition courses have been warned, and one student in the Theological School, who took his degree "summa cum laude", writes on receiving the notice that he hopes to have corrected the errors of his youth, but that his handwriting is still abominable. Hence he indulges in some excusable sarcasm on a typewriter, at the expense of the "Committee on the Use of English by Students". Many men have been warned because of mistakes in grammar reported by some examination corrector in their freshman year...
...have been eager to find some results of our masterpiece. We were the first to reach the class-room this morning. The inscription was erased. In its place some one had written: "There's my jolly English gentleman!" More stupid indifference; or perhaps could it have been sarcasm...
...Life" is so clever, so subtle, that one finds difficulty in knowing just what inference to draw from the editorial reprinted below. After much puzzling, the CRIMSON has begun to suspect that it is being treated to a dose of sarcasm. If we were "Life" or even Lampy, we should try to give payment in kind; but being only a newspaper we must reply on blunter methods. In passing, it might be remarked that partial quotation is virtually mis-quotation:--"Life's" summary of the CRIMSON's point of view is accurate, but it is incomplete...
Truly the old ideas are going by the board when the "impossible" happens, and football players prove students, even scholars with gold keys. The days of sarcasm about the "athletic course at Harvard" are over; and the ancient compliment can be altered to "an athlete and a scholar...
Russia, it must be understood at the outset, continues to revolute. In fact, so busy is it with its revoluting that it has scarcely the time to eat. (This bit of sarcasm will probably be taken over by Lenin for propaganda work, in which case we will promptly claim a fitting reward). But we digress. In fine, the nub of the matter is this: Russian women have taken up smoking as a means wherewith to assuage their hunger. And in the first flush of enthusiasm they have broadcasted the news to an astounded world...