Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Thayer's fumble; Dodge hit hard for right centre, but was put out by a splendid catch by Latham. Latham's splendid stop of Clarke's base-hit, and his subsequent difficult fly-catches, saved Harvard from a damaging inning. Nunn led off with a base-hit, and by clever base running stole second and third; Alger went out on a foul fly to Karge; Thayer hit hard to right field; Wigton made a good jump, and caught the ball in his left hand, and by quick fielding threw-Nunn out at home base; Alger missed Wigton...
...store. He is the dropped man. How we all envy the abandon with which he leans back in his seat and chuckles over a French novel! He always has the French novel, and he never has the lesson. When he is called upon, we fresher Freshmen know that the clever answer will be, "I have no books, sir, -am quite unprepared, -really. know nothing whatever about the subject...
...Dartmouth has a very clever editorial on the assumption of the cap and gown by the Freshmen of its College. "Ridentem dicere verum" is a weapon of which the Dartmouth editors understand...
From the reports of these lectures one may easily see that the lecturer is very clever and very earnest, - qualities which should secure a crowded audience, - but we should hardly expect a reader of Richter and Schopenhauer to dub a man "a genius" on one hearing...
...final act of the burlesque the very clever song on the Cadets "brought down the house," and the last verse had to be repeated on both occasions. The "personals" which followed also appeared to be enjoyed. No one performed his part better than the pianist, Mr. Shippen...