Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Church and Gailey played the best game for Princeton in the line. The former broke through oftener than any one else, and the latter showed himself a first-class snap-back in every respect. Behind the line, Baird through his punting and Smith through his accurate passing, interference and clever head-work were invaluable...
...Class Day number of the Lampoon, out today, is the best number of the year. It contains a very praiseworthy centre page drawing, a scene from Class Day, by E. J. Champney, and two very clever drawings, a cover and a full page drawing by T. M. Hastings and A. S. Walker. The whole number has a decidedly Class Day flavor and is, if possible, above the usual standard...
...just at the flood. The race was one of the most exciting of the afternoon and at no time were the crews more than two lengths apart. The Weld Crew rowed in very good form, using a long powerful leg drive. Dobyns at stroke deserves great credit for the clever manner in which he hit up the stroke and still kept it long. Orton steered a straight race and his judicious coaching was of great value to the stroke...
...Summersgill who had nine assists and made several pretty stops. The Brown infield played the finest game that has been seen in Cambridge this year and cut off several apparently safe hits. Brown was fortunate in bunching her hits at the right time, and also did some very clever sacrifice hitting...
...volume of short stories by Henry James is shortly to be published by Macmillan and Co., under the name Embarrassments. The studies are entitled The Figure in the Carpet, Glasses, The Next Time, and The Way It Came, and are sketched in Mr. James's usual minute and clever manner...