Word: clever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Parker's new play "Pomander Walk" will appeal to three classes of students. First to the appreciative graduate who enjoys delightful dialogue, clever acting and an all-round excellence of production. Second, to the upperclassman who has grown weary of the "gripping" drama-with-a-message and still wearier of the trombone and drum effects of musical comedy. Third, to the Freshman of social ambitions and a yet uncertain standing who is looking for a play of "possibilities." No one of these men should miss "Pomander Walk...
...players failing to win any of the six matches in singles or the three in doubles. Practically all of the matches in singles were closely contested and three of them went to three sets. Fraser-Campbell made the best showing for Harvard, and Holden of Yale played in very clever fashion...
...paper in a test or even out and out 'crib' in an examination, is the same in each case. Because the rest of the undergraduates . . . do not think any the less of a man for doing one of these things. More often than not deceitful methods are merely considered clever or amusing. Harvard needs a sense of honor. How can it be obtained...
Perhaps more men fail to realize their aspirations during their college career on account of the lack of these very qualities, than for any other reason,--men who are clever, who are earnest and energetic, who are capable and ambitious,--yet men who are afraid of forcing their own personality on those who are unacquainted with them. To urge these men to reap the benefit of a few courses in public speaking, might seem latitudinal,--were it not for the fact that these men seldom take such courses...
From the labored manner of such efforts one turns with relief to the more spontaneous productions of the less mediocre class. The clever phrasing of the editorial on the abandonment of hat-bands ought to assist in impressing upon the mind of the College the necessity of democratic reform. The naturalness of Mr. Viet's criticism of Jules Verne is refreshing; and at the end of his skit, "Pat Gallagher's Hundred Dollar Bill," he employs the method of suggestion with good result, because he has not run it into the ground in the earlier part of the composition...