Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...huts and cantonments. Their Army is in many places demoralized: the poison of German propaganda is having its dire effect of which the antidote is work such as Dr. Mott discribed. The Russian soldier has many hours of leisure, he must be kept busy or he falls prey to clever German speakers who fill his punitive mind with theories of Teuton love and internationalism. The Y. M. C. A. is our only method of reaching such men; its wonderful effect has already been demonstrated by the results obtained among the Russian armies in Turkestan...
...informals and the first Boston College eleven scrimmaged for an hour, the University players holding throughout a slight advantage Clever forward passing by the visitors was the feature of the afternoon...
...first half of the sixth inning saw a very clever double play by E. A. McCouch '20. W. B. Felton '19 had reached first for the Naval Reservists, when Clements hit to right field. McCouch caught the ball on the fly and by a quick throw caught Felton off first...
...Ground School by several clever forward passes almost tied the score in the last period...
Next to these two Mr. Malcolm Cowley's clever and attractive verses "On Visiting the Revere" form the most striking contribution to the number, while, of the remaining poems, it is perhaps enough to say that, with possibly a single exception, all are worthy of the place they have won in the Advocate. The stories, too, are well written, though slight and immature artistically, as compared with the verse, and depend too exclusively for their effectiveness upon some simple, strong, unshaded contrast, or upon some element of surprise--extravagant or farcical--in the denouement. Except in "A Fool...