Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fifth day of play the score was for the third time tied. Columbia won both her games and Harvard lost one, making the score Harvard 7, Columbia 7. Ryder suffered his first defeat by the clever playing of Seymour of Princeton. The result...
...shape in Tennyson's elegy, "In Memoriam." Mr. Copeland said a few words by way of comparing, or rather contrasting, "In Memoriam," and the two other most famous elegies in English,- Milton's "Gycidus" and the "Adonais" of Shelly; and he commented on the suggestion once made by a clever woman that, although literary ambition would have been more highly gratified by writing "Adonais," there is, nevertheless, a more complete expression of personal and intimate human feeling in the lines in which Tennyson commemorated the lost friend of his youth...
...latter, unique in character, will be both imposing and ridiculous. At the end of the play the idea is suggested to Argan, the malade imaginaire, that it would be convenient and, above all, a cheap plan to be made a doctor himself. This idea strikes him as a clever one and he desires to be initiated immediately. Thereupon the ceremony takes place, which is full of mock pompousness from beginning to and. The leading figure is the Praeses, or President of the Faculty, a dignified official who, with a sonorous voice, drawls out the Latin formulas. Two other doctors...
...Saturday, a push ball game was played between the Newton Athletic Association team and a picked Harvard team. The Newton eight were heavier, and outplayed their opponents, although the Harvard team did all the scoring for two innings. The winning point was made in the third inning by the clever play of the Newton line, which gave first and only touchdown of the game...
...matter also is above the average. The most pretentious contributions are the History of Harvard College (continued), and a rather clever extract from Kipling's Jungle Book, brought up to date. Allusions to the Quakers are frequent...