Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutor in his capacity as a lecturer. There are no quizzes in connection with the lectures, no required reading, and no examinations. Most men attend lectures recommended by their tutors as helpful in preparing for their final examinations, usually not more than five hours a week for a clever man and ten hours for a stupid one. Some people do go to more because they like to; but lecturing is so bad, especially as to fluency and dramatic effectiveness, that not even the stupid men are tempted...
...clever comedy, no matter how well acted, does not necessarily draw a capacity audience. "The Full House", however, lived up to its name, and from the moment the curtain was rung up, kept the crowded theatre reverberating with laughter. Everyone expected to laugh, and laugh spontaneously; the house was prepared to clap, and its patrons are not claques, each of the favorite actors as they first appeared. There is an infectious atmosphere about the St. James which positively breeds mirth...
...southward from the spot where his ship was frozen in, to the first Esquimaux village, the settlement of humans which is the nearest in the world to the North Pole. There he found the children coasting down the hills, exactly, he said, like children elsewhere. The Esquimaux were very clever with their hands, and also with their feet. In illustration of this fact the speaker showed pictures of Esquimaux ladies holding their sewing in their toes. These Polar inhabitants had last been visited by Captain MacMillan in 1917, and when he arrived last year they told him that they...
Then for months the matter was dropped. Although Mr. Wyner had announced on February 6 that his plans were nearly complete for immediate construction nothing more was done. Many people began to feel that the whole affair was a clever hoax to force the President and Fellows to buy the property at a large price. Meanwhile architects in Boston were working and reworking at their plans for the hotel...
...Lampoon has become a recognized fact, it might be well to look at the situation from the attitude that the college authorities took in this affair. Many agree that the action of the police was mischievous and unwarranted in both cases, but whereas the Lampoon was a clean and clever satire, the Advocate was scarcely so commendable a publication to outsiders. This, if ever, would have been the occasion for the interference of University authorities. But the dean's office, holding to its traditional liberal policy, has issued no hasty ultimatum and offered no blustering excuses. The faculty individually communicated...