Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lacrosse game was played on Jarvis immediately after the base-ball men vacated the field. The play was limited to two half-hours, with ten minutes intermission between each half. The game was not marked by particularly brilliant work on either side. Harvard played with unexpected weakness at first, Ross of the Somervilles being allowed to capture three easy goals, before the Harvard defense seemed able to meet his system of attack play. For the Somervilles, Ross and Davis did by far the best playing. Most of the other men seemed inferior to their Harvard opponents. The game...
...errors of the other side. The rest of our scoring was made in the eighth inning, when every man had his turn at the bat. Five scores were tallied, one of which was a home run by Allen. This and the double play by Tilden and Litchfield were the brilliant features of the game...
...evening Mr. W. B. Scofield. The subject of his oration was "Time" ; he had chosen this, he said, because it was the only one of the four grand themes-"Time," "Eternity," "The Universe," and "Eighty-seven"-of which he felt conpetent to treat. The oration throughout was witty and brilliant, and was in the orator's happiest vein...
Some 1200 spectators, of whom three quarters were outside the fence witnessed the exhibition game with Dartmouth yesterday. The raw wind that swept across Jarvis Field was accountable for many of the errors made by both nines, but the playing was, on the whole, far from brilliant. The game was called promptly at four, with Dartmouth...
...confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there is a possibility for fine work, all a man's energies, physical and mental, being brought into play. Instead of a must rushing hither and thither, we see brilliant runs, beautiful passes. long kicks, and clever tricks in dodging and tackling that would never have been learned, save by long practice. And again we are brought face to face with the fact that we have reduced another game to a science...