Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year; he handles himself better and is much quicker and surer. Hayes made one bad fumble, but redeemed himself later by what should have been a double play but for Haughton's error. Haughton played carelessly and as if he felt too secure of his position. Scannell made some clever catches of high fouls...
...defects. But I have also heard many who have tried in one way or another to excuse the result. There has been a tendency to lay great stress on the superior form of the Harvard speakers, on the better massing of their argument, and their more clever handling of evidence, and to ascribe their defeat to incomprehensible blindness on the part of the judges or even to some "trick" of the other side. Is not all this rather a dangerous, not to say unmanly way of dodging a square look at the facts? Did not the Harvard speakers...
...striking feature of the entertainment was an unusually clever poem by R. P. Utter, full of personal allusions. Songs by Woodruff and Scull alternated with the speeches...
...sketches headed "December" (with apologies to F. G. Atwood), are also clever and entertaining...
...second half, Bannard, behind Smith's clever interference, got through between Brewer and Swain and scored after a fine dodging run of 40 yards. Again, shortly before the end of the game, with the ball on Harvard's 20 yard line, Brown dropped back for a kick. The pass was slow and too high and just as Brown got the ball away, Church blocked it. It rolled back of the line where Brokaw fell on it for the second touchdown. Baird kicked both goals...