Word: wits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inveighs against the iniquity of the Lacrosse Association in getting from the President a grant of land that had been "occupied for years" by others, - to wit, the tennis men. As a matter of fact, when their present ground was given to the Association the only courts that were in the neighborhood were between the Society building and the College Hospital; a position in which they were not likely to be interfered with by the practising of the Team. The other courts that are now crowded in near the path have been marked there since then...
UNHAPPY man upon whose helpless wit...
...exchange publications with several female colleges, of which Vassar ranks first. Their literary productions rival those of our first colleges. Their sprightly editorials, the delicacy of their wit and humor, and their freedom of thought, have a peculiar charm which confirms our belief that their manner of education better accords with the "eternal fitness of things." - Hamilton Literary Monthly...
...flash of your wit of steel...
...into braggadocio, as in the recent matter of the football championship. Of the Record and the Courant, the former is the more gentlemanly; but the News is after all our favorite, - a model which other colleges dailies would do well to imitate . . . Then Columbia is the very spirit of wit, - too apt, in the case of the Acta Columbiana, to degenerate into vulgarity. Of the Spectator, with its admirable illustrations, we wish to speak in terms of unqualified approval. It is suggestively humorous rather than broadly farcical; the little delicate touches that lighten the general effect are added to advantage...