Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aims some what higher than is the wont of college poets. His fertile fancy has produced some very pretty lines of which a good specimen is his rendering of Banville's "Ballade of the Haunted Stream," which is, however, too long to quote. "Carl" has also written some very clever verses, but we can almost hear the crank squeak in some of his effusions. However, a tolerant kindness should be shown towards an editor of a fortnightly paper. The Argo has very well formulated its creed in the following triolet, which is only one of thousands...
General Silas Pepperil's "Point of View," in the last Advocate, is truthful if not very comprehensive nor coherent; it is probably representative of the sentiments of the majority. The entire discussion is clever...
...diabolical art - professor; walks a slack rope stretched across the street - professor; goes without eating twenty days - professor; rides four horses bareback - professor; sings in the choir - professor; teaches a brass band - professor; cures warts - professor; plays billiards for a living - professor; trains dogs - professor; performs some clever trick of sleight of hand - professor; does anything in the world except teach, and knows less of books and schools than he does of heaven - professor...
...indebted to the editors for a copy of the Bric-a-Brac, an annual publication of the junior class of Princeton. From cover to cover it is full of clever sketches and useful information on all departments of the college. The cover alone is very artistically treated and shows much of that talent which we have been wont to expect in each number of the Tiger. The first pages are devoted to a general catalogue of faculty and students, followed by lists of membership of the various literary organizations; then athletic records, clubs, commencement exercises and general Princeton news...
...article on "Undergraduate Authorship" the Argo says: "At Harvard adventurers on the doubtful ground of undergraduate authorship have been numerous and successful. Among the first and best things published were the clever satires, 'Little Tin Gods on Wheels' and 'Oxygen, a Pastoral of Mt. Desert.' Then there are Mr. Hudgens' 'Exeter School Days and other Poems,' and the volume of reprints from the Lampoon. A recent daintily printed and brightly written volume is 'Sly Ballades in Harvard China.' We sincerely wish our space would permit a few clippings from it. We must, however, refer our readers to the book itself...