Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just before the Yale game last year, is not yet certain whether the injury will heal sufficiently to allow him to return to his position as catcher. Scholastic difficulties have again cut a number of promising players. Among them are R. H. Booth '27, last year's brilliant Freshman pitcher, and I. R. Duchin...
...Brown quintet has an imposing record to match that of the Crimson. Only three teams have humbled the Bear so far, Yale, Wesleyan and B. U. Wagenknecht, brilliant forward on the Providence five, is particularly successful on his home floor, and the three Brown reverses have all been scored on alien courts. M. A. C., handily defeated by the Crimson earlier in the season, was defeated by one point on the Providence floor...
When Cecil Rhodes established his endowment to enable a select group of American young men to study at Oxford, he set up a greater claim to the gratitude of posterity than he had done by all his brilliant achievement as an empire builder in South Africa: That endowment was a modest beginning. It had nothing of the popular glamor of a Cape to Cairo project, but it was of great significance to the future progress of the world...
Your issue of Feb. 2 was filled with as inane a set of letters as I have ever read. 1 am one of an increasing majority who ) find in your terse, sane and interesting paragraphs a thoroughly brilliant commentary on World Affairs...
Surely the invention of the limerick was a brilliant piece of originality. Who did it, or why he named the verseform after the country which lies just west of Tipperary, is not known. But the limerick was developed and popularized by Edward Lear 80 or 90 years ago. He was a young artist of 20 who had just published some colored plates of the rarer Psittacidae (parrots). The 13th Earl of Derby went up to London thereupon and lured Lear to go down to Knowsley to draw Derby's private menagerie. While there, he wrote some poems for the delectation...