Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While at Harvard, Sanborn gave evidence of no little literary ability. In his sophomore year he was chosen as poet for the class dinner, and his classmates will remember the clever lines he read on that occasion. During his whole course he was interested deeply in the college press. He was an editor of the Advocate, and was president of the Lampoon board, while he was one of those who founded the Monthly. In his junior year he won the Bowdoin prize by his dissertation on "The Rights and Duties of a Biographer." His senior year was one of unusual...
...exceedingly clever and witty in conversation, and entertaining in a high degree; he wrote verse with charming grace, and had a particularly delicate skill in the turning of fine prose sketches. He could hardly have failed in a literary career, had he lived...
...first event was a very clever exhibition of fencing between Dr. Deblois and Professor Castaldi. It was followed by the middle-weight boxing, for which there were only two entries: Mr. F. G. Curtis, Harvard, '90, and Mr. Clarke from the B. Y. C. A. The first round opened with cautious sparring. Curtis landed his left on Clarke's face. Clarke led, but fell short; Curtis landed again, and the round closed slightly in his favor. In the second round Clarke succeeded in getting in his left, evening things up a little. The round closed with a clean...
...second part of Mr. E. Ingress dl's description of his experiences in a trip to the Pacific by way of Canada, is given. He describes and illustrates the notable places of interest in the northwest. A short but rather clever story entitled; "A Critical Situation," an adventure in London, follows. But the feature of the number for Harvard is the first of a series of articles on American College Athletics, by Mr. Hallowell, a member of last year's graduating class. It is on Harvard University and presents all the leading features of our yearly athletic events. The author...
Turkey, today, is no match for Russia. Constantinople is a fixed point in Russian policy, and only the influence of England wards off the inevitable result of the clever diplomacy and vast resources of the empire of the Tsars...