Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...practice, much attention is devoted to meeting the expected rushes around the ends, of Harvard's big backs, which line of play won the game for Harvard a year ago. Yale hopes to profit by her experience with Harvard tactics, and to show in turn some clever tricks of her own." - Yale letter in N. Y. Times...
...seeing "Count Tolstoy at Home," she should make this the title and subject of a paper in the November Atlantic, which is one of the features of the number. Miss Hapgood, although admiring his great gifts, is not a blind adherent of his changeable philosophies. Her sketch is therefore clever and trenchant and it must be read if one would understand Tolstoy better than perhaps he understands himself. It is a useful bit of information for the layman that the name Tolstoy with the y is the writer's own way of spelling his own name, and not a typographical...
...game was a poor one and from the freshman standpoint a very poor one. The Ninety-five eleven played a loose, life-less game and was especially weak in the line. The sophomores had a very clever wedge, which revolved always to the right and their opponents seemed totally unable to stop it. The Ninety-four team was strong where the freshmen were weak and fairly outplayed the latter. This however does not excuse the poor showing made by Ninety-five for that the team can play better foot ball it evinced by the brace towards...
...varsity could seem to make no headway against the strong rush line which the second presented, and finally lost the ball. Corbett, Burgess and White all made clever runs, and Corbett scored three touch downs against the 'varsity while White also scored once or twice. Lake scored for the 'varsity...
...More Serious Nonsense" is not so good. It contains several clever bits of dialogue, but on the whole seems labored and amateurish. The fact is that to be amusing, serious nonsense must be very well done indeed...