Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday afternoon the Freshman basketball team defeated Andover gymnasium, in the last and hardest game of the season. This victory at the close of a brilliant season gives the 1911 team the best record that any Freshman basketball team has ever made...
Little can be said for the CRIMSON team except that it failed to show its usual brilliant form. The ice was much littered up with prostrate ha-ha boys who, falling, held on like grim death to the nearest skater. This, together with the fact that the Lampoons were more accustomed to the glare of the lamp lights, disconcerted the CRIMSON skaters with the aforementioned result. The puck escaped injury...
...annual dance given in the Union last night by the Junior members was well attended and proved a brilliant success. Dancing began at 9 o'clock, after a half-hour's overture by the orchestra, and continued until four. There were twenty dances on the cards, supplemented by several extras. Supper was served in the Dining Room after the thirteenth dance...
...main feature of the new number of the Advocate is a substantial abstract from the lecture delivered here last month by Mr. Perey MacKaye '97, on "The Drama of Democracy." The lecture itself, as all who heard it will agree, was a brilliant performance, an interesting and inspiring thesis maintained with vigor and enthusiasm, in a spirit of fine idealism. The impression of a highly imaginative style rising at times almost to splendor, which Mr. MacKaye's delivery conveyed, is now deepened when one has the chance to read these paragraphs with care. The excerpts deserve the attention not only...
...season's football team removes no little anxiety from the minds of all supporters of Harvard athletics and the CRIMSON feels that the University is to be congratulated upon the selection of Mr. Haughton. Coach Haughton's qualifications speak for themselves. As an undergraduate he was famous for his brilliant athletic career, and later as coach of two football teams at Cornell which made creditable records, he proved his ability to handle men. Furthermore, he has been in continual touch with Harvard football teams for the last few years and was a valuable assistant to Coach Reid in the season...