Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great soldier of the period in which they lived, are selected in memory of Bishop Brooks and General Francis C. Barlow. General Barlow was ranked as the highest officer of the Harvard men who went to the war in 1861, and won his rank of Major General by his brilliant service, ability and courage. Both of these men were members of the class of '55, which now makes this window its memorial of their unique distinction, as the first soldier and the first preacher among Harvard graduates...
...achieved in his work no great success and had won no name. Versatile and brilliant he was indeed, and he had gained a wide knowledge of the world and keen insight into the characters of men; but still he was merely a writer with no definite purpose, and from among the various branches of literature had not finally chosen the kind of writing which he was to make peculiarly his own. Truth in writing, that power that scorns the sham and pictures the real, Thackeray had, and a fund of brilliant humor also. He had lacked the personal and distinctive...
...games in both cases were slow, chiefly owing to the fact that they were played on the open ice and not on a rink as usual. This caused a great waste of time while the puck was being brought back to a playable position, and, while it allowed some brilliant individual work on the sides, it was a great hindrance to team play and a handicap to men who had been accustomed to using the sides of the rink...
...that Princeton should win two games from Columbia and that Harvard should defeat Yale. But Harvard lost to Yale and Princeton to Columbia, thus giving Columbia a lead of 2 1-2 points. The game between Sawin (Y) and Perry (H) in the final round is considered the most brilliant in the history of intercollegiate chess. Perry was forced to resign after no less than twenty four moves...
Louis How, '95 tells the story of his grandfather, James B. Eads, the engineer, a great man who did not owe his greatness to political success; whose greatness was of such a stamp that he was not allured by suggestions of political influence as a reward for brilliant achievements in another line. He was a man without schooling, but of great genius, and an indefatigable worker; the story of his rise from walking the Mississippi bottom under a diving-bell to the position of the leading hydraulic engineer of his time, and more than any other man, the river...