Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...such a regulation would entail great inconvenience, protested against the vote and proposed a compromise. The Corporation, convinced that a news stand in the Memorial Transept was eminently unfitting, refused to allow its continuance, but gave their consent to the arrangement which the committee have today made public. To wit:- that the Dining Association take the responsibility of the sale of papers; that the base of supplies be out of sight down stairs; that two boys be employed to sell the papers, one to stand at the door inside the Dining Hall, the other to circulate among the tables...
...Wit and Humor of Aristophanes...
...Wit and Humor of Aristophanes, Wednesday, April...
...famous description of the scene of the trial of Warren Hastings when Sheridan made one of the most brilliant speeches ever made in English, but the body of the lecture was on his qualities as a play-wright. He was characterized as possessing singular dramatic talent and shining wit, but as lacking the imagination and humanity of Goldsmith...
Hicks received the degree of A. M. from Harvard last year and had planned his work in Sanskrit for the degree of Ph. D. His high stand in his studies and his promise as a scholar in a special line had endeared him to his instructors, while his genial wit and sympathetic nature made him many friends in social circles. His untimely death will be lamented by all who knew...