Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...undergraduates, though their manners belied that description, boarded an outward-bound Huron Avenue car at Harvard square on Wednesday evening of this week at about nine o'clock, and proceeded to put two of their number through a set of vulgar performances utterly unrelieved even by the originality or wit which is sometimes supposed to atone for such infringements of the ordinary rules of good breeding. I do not know to what club or fraternity these men belong, but if a better argument were lacking for doing away with public initiations by those clubs to which age or other virtues...
...Greenfield, deserve special notice. The former, told in a happy-go-lucky style with frequent touches of humor, holds the interest of the reader till the end. The latter, a serio-comic essay with a good deal of truth mixed in, not only has the value of much wit, but takes hold of a live college topic...
...Were I the Thing," the burlesque on "If I Were King," introduced between the second and third acts, contains some good wit, but not enough to justify its length. H. L. Movius '02, J. A. Dix '02 and H. M. Gittings '02 showed ability as burlesquers...
...shorter bits, though brighter, do not dispel. The leading editorial, though the point is well concealed, gives the impression of an attempt to treat a question of real interest in light vein, and is in this way a commendable departure from the conventional rambling vehicle for chance flashes of wit. But the treatment is unfortunately inconclusive, and the writer, apparently aware of this, follows the good old Lampoon fashion and introduces an allusion to recent hour exams, instead of pointing his intended moral...
...rollicking humor of "An Elk Hunt in Wyoming," by Henry Lyman, is the most delightful trait of a very interesting narrative. The incident by itself is very funny; and the sly wit with which it is told makes it well-nigh irresistible...