Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University has been handicapped in choosing teachers of medicine owing to lack of any direct control over the vacancies occurring in hospitals used for clinical teaching purposes. Under the new conditions, hospital appointments of the highest importance will be an additional incentive to bring to Harvard the most brilliant minds among teachers of medicine
...ensemble in the Saint-Saens Variations was in the main admirable, the character of the variations was clearly differentiated, and the climax at the end of the fugato was skilfully prepared. The Brahms Hungarian Dances brought the concert to a spirited and brilliant close. Tschaikowsky's elegaic trio was given a serious and earnest interpretation, and the playing of P. G. Clapp '09 of the difficult piano part is especially worthy of praise. C. L. Tittmann 2L. has a sonorous voice of large compass; his performance of "The Two Grenadiers" was especially impressive. "Le Cor" was given with discreet imagination...
...times, his genuine warmth, make his work promising. His extracts from Sill's poetry are less impressive than he means them to be. "The Fool's Prayer," striking as it is, contains more truth than poetry, and would scarcely stick in the reader's mind except for the brilliant perversion at the end,--"O, Lord...
Harvard was defeated by Yale Saturday afternoon on Yale Field, New Haven, by the score of 6 to 0, in a contest which was marked by fierce, determined play by Yale, by brilliant individual work and powerful resistance on the part of the University team, but most of all by a skilled use of open plays. Yale's touchdown, very near the close of the first half, came as the result of a recovered onside kick and a long forward pass from Veeder to Alcott on Harvard's four-yard line, when the former had dropped back...
...University team, which had much the stronger line, played intelligent football considering that there had been but three scrimmages previous to the game; but in speed Williams had the advantage. The next two games with the light Bowdoin and Maine teams were easily won by brilliant work, the first with a score of 10 to 0, the second 17 to 0. The game with Bates, won by Harvard by the score of 27 to 6, was a contest which, although one sided, was decidedly interesting and fairly encouraging for the University team. The Bates eleven, light and extremely fast, showed...