Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Football Game" Which is interesting enough till the end is reached. There it weakens and concludes in a very flat manner. "Fantine" by A. C. Train is the best story in the number. It is bright and very well told. "The Long and Short of It" is very clever though a little improbable. "Miss Legion" by H. H. Chamberlain, who has just been elected an editor of the Advocate, a society story, is well conceived and is written in an entertaining style. The "College Kodaks" are very good, except the one about the faro table which seems a little fantastical...
...willing to go is wanted; and on Friday night when the proceeds are to be devoted toward defraying the expenses of one of the most important of the college teams, it is very desirable that not even standing room should be left unoccupied. The play itself is a very clever piece of work, increasing in interest as it progresses; the crew is a most worthy object to help along; the kindness of the Pudding deserves hearty support and so we hope and believe that the students to-night will also show a generous desire to serve their crew's interest...
...more of a coxcomb does the male become." He then gives a detailed and interesting account of our bird dancers, chief among which are the members of the goose family. 'Sport with Canada Geese" is very good. "Miss Caruther's Partner is interesting though not a novel or very clever story. The other articles of the number are in the usual style. The poetry and illustrations are unusually good...
...Artist Life by the North Sea" written and illustrated by H. W. Ranger. Washington Gladden contributes the third and last chapter of "The Cosmopolis City Club" telling what the Club accomplished. This number is unusually rich in poetry all of which is good. John Kendrich Bangs contributes a clever poem to the department "In Lighter Vein," called "The United States Poetry Company (Limited...
...Miss Harris's Love Affair" by P. L. Atherton, though not much of a story, is entertaining, and is well told. "Lanty with the Left Hand" by Townsend Walsh is very clever. As a whole this number Is far the best that has been published this year...