Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...serve, made it a deuce set, and finally won, 10-8. With the score standing 4 all in the third set, Wheelwright again won on Dabney's serve and took the set 6-4. The noticeable fact about the match was Wheelwright's steadiness in comparison with Dabney's brilliant but erratic playing...
...death of John Moore Morse '07, Harvard has lost one of the most promising of its younger graduates. After a brilliant undergraduate career, he entered business in New York and was on the threshold of a useful and successful life, when he was cut off by an untimely death...
...Flaherty at quarterback failed to get the men on their toes. He was slow in driving the team, lacking the decisiveness which he showed in the Bowdoin game. In the backfield Leslie and Rogers were rather slow in starting and failed to keep their feet. Frothingham though not as brilliant in the second half made several long gains outside of tackle; his kicking, however, was far from satisfactory...
...substitutes then lined up against the second substitutes for a 15-minute scrimmage. Wigglesworth at quarter did some very spectacular running, behind good interference. He caught a punt in mid-field and scored after a brilliant run; in addition he ran back two kick-offs to the middle of the field. His playing was by far the best of the afternoon. During the scrimmage the first team substitutes scored three touchdowns, Pierce making the other two. This scrimmage was carried through in good style, both teams showing more snap and speed than the others...
Henry Morris Stephens delegate from the University of California; brilliant historian in many fields; careless of fame, but spending himself without stint to teach others a love of history...