Word: clever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...difficult to pick out any individual stars on this year's team, as the success of a lacrosse team depends decidedly upon team-work. E. E. O'Neil '16 and G. F. Beal '16 were the most consistent and clever players on the defense while W. Lucas '15, O. H. Persons '17, and J. R. Fleming '15 were always active on the attack. Of the 12 regular men on this year's team 6 remain to form the foundation of the 1916 team. A good solid defense ought to be built up around Captain-elect E. E. O'Neil...
Among the poems, the most noteworthy is "Belgium," the McKim Garrison prize poem by Mr. T. Nelson, who shows clever craftsmanship, fine feeling effectively restrained, and a gift for poetic expression. Mr. K. A. Robinson's "Ballad of Famous Princes," is a vigorous poem, pleasingly sonorous, well rounded off in thought and form. Mr. G. H. Code's "Lusitania" is an appropriate dirge, too quiet for the subject, but dingified and earnest. There are three smoothly adequate descriptive lyrics: Mr. H. Hendrson's "The Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody...
...Mechem's "A Young Man in Wrong" is clever, especially the dialogue...
...more humane sort of philanthropy, but to golf! Possibly the characters in the story would be more life-like if the author had let them speak more for themselves; the setting and atmosphere are well handled. The unexpected "denouement" confronts one again in Mr. Burke's clever dramatic sketch, "Discipline," in which the reader comes to realize only at the end that he has been reading a play within a play. The shock is delicious...
...Valveno and Zamore, the acrobumps; some clever gymnastic work that the real athletes will appreciate...