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Word: witnessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...light gleaming in your room as you return across the Yard, to have some one to call to you or growl at you as you open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER A SCHOONER. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

...hear the Chapel choir throughout the year know what it is. It speaks for itself. But for a long time our writers, when they have found themselves lacking in material and wit, have, as a last resort, pounced upon the Chapel choir and the musical societies in College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

...though you have a world of wit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A REMONSTRANCE. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

...have been pursuing their studies for one term previous to the day of the race, shall be eligible to row on the University crew; provided, however, that all candidates for the last five degrees above named, to wit: LL. B., B. D., M. D., Ph. D., A. M., shall have previously taken the degree of A. B., B. S., or Ph. B., from the college on whose crew they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGATTA RULES. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

...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 Charivari" will be published, that the pictures of the succeeding issues will be as good as those of the first, that the wit will always be as fresh, and, finally, that the Lampoon will become one of the permanent institutions of the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1876 | See Source »

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