Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this issue of the Advocate the name "College Kodaks" might have been changed to "Annex Dailies," for we are treated to some of the productions of our sister students. The first is a little long and rambling for a Kodak, but it is certainly clever. The second, though it is on the everlasting small boy, is "easily queen." The third is decidedly the most feminine of the batch, and one feels sure that it is not a man's production even before one finds that the tall and stately hero is accused of using "deuced" in his thought...
...College Kodaks with one exception are the usual collection of more or less consciously awkward literary poses. The exception will be recognized as clever. It borders on good morals - but to quote the paragraph in question one may know perfectly well what that means and still not be able easily to define it. It is the best expression of the risque spirit which has been periodically showing up in the Advocate since last year, that has yet appeared...
...brightest bit in the number - for its author is mindful of the old adage, that "brevity is the soul of wit" - is the first of the College Kodaks. It is a clever parody on the style of criticism which permeates the English department in general and which seems to be the particular hobby of English B and English 12 instructors in particular. In view of the character of the parody, one almost feels tempted to dub its author a "tonsorial artist." Although this first of the Kodaks out-ranks the rest, the second and third are worthy of notice...
...Wicked Flee When no Man Pursueth" is a character sketch of country life, rather clever in its plot, and naturally related...
...Comedy of Errors" impresses one as a clever bit of character-delineation - certainly as good a piece of prose as there is in the eighth number of the Advocate. In the mutual misunderstanding of the man and the woman, who are the sole human characters of the sketch, we recognize certain phases of the story of Beatrice and Benedict - modernized. What constitutes the chief charm of the sketch is the directness of thought and expression, terseness in phrasing, and the simplicity shown in introducing perhaps the most important character of the tale, Chimborazo, the match-making...