Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Moon," "Imogene Donahue," "Drinking Medley," and "Fair Harvard." This evening's programme includes the "Fra Diavola" "Ruy Blas," and "Poet and Peasant" overture, selections from Rossini's Stabat Mater" and "Chassaigue's Folka," some "Tannhauser" reminiscences, waltzes by Strauss and Waldteufel, the "Arion Carnival March," and other brilliant numbers...
...Andover were the teams. In each of the three sets Exeter obtained a good lead, but the Andover representatives played a good up-hill game, and made it necessary to play two deuce sets. Soule and Harrison played the better team game, while Harrison's work at times was brilliant. Spalding did good work for Andover. The scores were in favor of Exeter...
Entering Harvard in 1887, be at once brought the college team well in the front rank and himself made a brilliant record. He went in first in the Harvard-Longwood match, and carried his bat all through the inning for 61; duplicated this feat the following week against the Mystics for 39 runs; at the end of the spring term, had the magnificent average of 59.50, and his average for the year was: 6 inning, twice not out 149 runs, average 37.25. His bowling average the same year reads: 336 balls, 15 maidens, 23 wickets, 90 runs-average...
...games were perhaps the best that have ever been held. Eight records were broken, and the individual work of the contestants was, as a whole, uncommonly brilliant. Harvard, therefore has the satisfaction of knowing that, even though she lost the cup it was lost to a series of exceptional contestants. The showing, however, of the Harvard men was good, and but for the unfortunate mishap in the bicycle race would have been even better. There is a strong probability, in fact, that Harvard may yet, by winning the bicycle race, take second place in the games...
...brilliant work of our athletes in the past the Mott Haven cup belongs to Harvard, and after this will come to us as a reminder of Harvard's preeminence in track athletics, yet we hope that our tormer record may be kept up and that the work of our men today may cause the name of Harvard to be engraved on the last championship space...