Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...South Bostons did their best playing. They secured the ball at the centre, when close to their goal several times, and worked it way up the field by a three-cornered pass, which was very effective. They lobbed at our goal again and again; Morton and Towle did some clever defending at this stage, but two Boston men managed to get inside of point and cover, and a goal was the result. Time, 15 minutes. The half closed with the score...
...centre. Harvard made a great brace from the start, and played something like their uphill game of last year. Two goals were secured in quick succession, the first swiped by Harding, the second shot by Blodgett. This second goal was the result of very pretty attack, passing and most clever work on Blodgett's part...
...attack were weak and tired. Griffing did fine work in the defence field. His rushing elicited frequent applause. Morton made several fine stops. The South Bostons secured a third goal early in the half and the score remained unchanged to the end. The visitors were much more agile and clever with their sticks than our men and backed each other up most effectively...
...Revenge" is hardly a story, for there is no plot; but the author has taken a series of incidents, hackneyed by long use in college productions - a railroad train, a rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy, and by it the reader's attention is held to the last. We wonder, by the way, what perron in Monaco the hero found so familiar...
...Paul Bourget, is well rendered, and gains in effectiveness by being put into blank verse. In ' O Tempora," a pretty idea, well expressed, is hurt by faulty metre. A second strong poem, of deeper thought, is burdened with the pedantic and heavy title "Address." The fourth poem is a clever bit, announced as coming all the way from Laselle...