Word: cleverisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Despite the fact that wind and rain hindered the University match, nevertheless, fast tennis was played. Captain Larmon of Dartmouth used a reverse twist service to great advantage while G. W. Helm '19's clever placing was of great value to the University...
...Maine team has suffered one defeat this season, but has shown considerable strength. On Thursday, they lost to Dartmouth in a close contest by a score of 3-2. The game was featured by the clever pitching and close Fielding of the Maine team. The University has been beaten in three of its five games, but showed a decided improvement in the field in the errorless contest on Monday...
With the weather far from seasonable the University tennis team defeated the Massachusetts Institute of Technology team by five matches to one Saturday afternoon on Jarvis Field. The features of the match were the effective reverse service played by F. C. Hanighen '21 and the clever back court game of Brockman, Tech's winner. The doubles sets played by L. de Turenne '21 and Hanighen against Brockman and Barron were well played, fast and exciting. The M. I. T. team showed lack of practice while the University players had a tendency towards wildness...
...hardly seems that the problem can be solved in such a simple manner. The undergraduate is a stubborn brute--with a little clever manipulation you can lead him anywhere you will but it is an almost impossible task to drive him with a whip. And this it seems to me, is what they are attempting at New Haven. There is but one way to make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave...
Elsewhere are indicators that show how much progress is being made in advancing the loan. Do not the blue "V" buttons and the clever indicator on Fairfax stimulate the cause? They all fulfill their purpose, but they are, after all, only superficial devices and the ultimate success of the drive rests on the whole hearted support of the undergraduates...