Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mitchell, the third baseman of the visiting team, has been doing the greater part of the slugging for his nine, being well over the .300 mark. Captain Donnelly and Dee are also consistent hitters, Gildea, in centre field, and Regan, at second, are both clever fielders and performed brilliantly all season...
...number is good, creditable, entertaining; but with the exception of John Corbin's brief account of the rescue of the Advocate in 1890, there is hardly a line from start to finish which might not have been written by an unusually clever and remarkably well-trained Yale man. The flavor is good, but is it the flavor of Harvard...
Perhaps the magazine as a whole, with its new purposes and policies, is more satisfactory than any one thing in it. The editorials are either rather stupid or extremely clever. It is unfortunate that the unusual ability expended upon "Room-mates" and "Our Friends the Squirrels" could not have brightened up the criticism of the College Library and the rather perfunctory remarks about the navigation of the Charles. The damning indictment of the parsimonious Freshman Class will, however, receive the unqualified approval of the Seniors...
...whole, the best performance of the evening was the bout in which L. R. Barker 1L. met S. Burnham '19 in the 175-lb. class. Fast, clever recoveries on the part of Burnham, which the latter turned to good account, and a powerful offensive attack by his opponent, characterized the struggle. Holds were rarely kept for any length of time, and great speed was shown by both contestants...
...luxury or convenience, has been the brand with which we are all familiar. We hear of exorbitant prices paid to the great singers. We know the tremendous cost of maintaining opera, or a symphony orchestra; and on the other hand, we hear about the fortune made by a clever writer of popular songs. Our basis of the value of music is for the most part two-fold: that of the popular brand of music, which we respect according to the amount of money it has made; and that of the other kind we indiscriminately term "classical," which we think...