Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...curious conception of horses and his grotesque style. The best individual picture are a halfpage drawing representing an optical illusion, and two small sketches illustrating rather time worn jokes. Contrary to custom, the long articles are easily the best reading of this number. Deserving of especial mention is a clever take-off on a recent Advocate story, and a pretended unpublished letter written by Li Hung Chang...
...Franklin then went into the box for '99 and struck out the next two men. For the rest of the game, 1900 was helpless at the bat and the contest was decidedly one-sided. '99 was kept from making more than one run in the fifth by the clever work of Edmunds and Foster who caught two men off bases, but there was no chance for the fielders in the last innings, the game resolving itself into a pitcher's contest...
...addition to his batting, Stillman pitched a clever game, holding the College nine to four hits and striking out seven...
...editorials are more interesting reading than usual and the article on "Artie in Cambridge" is a clever take-off of a popular style of modern story. The third number of "Lispings of Little Lew" is even better than the preceding ones...
...year has been the remarkable revival of lacrosse. The movement was begun in the winter term with such enthusiasm that when the out-of-door season opened, about twenty-five men reported-among them being not a few experienced players. The practice thus far has been fast and clever. Captain Powell expects to make a creditable showing against Harvard, Toronto, Lehigh and the other teams which will be met later in the term...