Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Crescent Hockey Club of Boston defeated the University second team by the score of 3 to 1, in the Stadium Saturday in a game marked by brilliant flashes of individual playing and poorly developed team-work. In the first half the second team was slightly outplayed by its opponents and was unable to stop the rushes, of Clifford and Ford. The second team forwards played together with more consistency in the second half, allowing only one goal...
...gymnastic team has developed with remarkable rapidity since work began on November 10. Although there are no exceptionally brilliant gymnasts on the team, there are more men doing high class work than last year. The squad, which is also larger than in former years, has held regular practice four times a week in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
These topics are vitally connected with the welfare and happiness of the undergraduates. The CRIMSON believes Mr. Lowell stands at the beginning of a period of brilliant service to Harvard and to the high ideals of integrity, scholarship and vigorous manhood which have been nobly combined in his predecessor...
...killed at Cedar Mountain. Edward Dalton '55 died of exhaustion after the war. James Lowell '58 was shot once and returned to the North; later he went back to the front and was killed at Glendale. Stephen Perkins '56 was pleasant and witty, a brilliant student, standing at the head of his class in College. He was shot in the battle of Cedar Mountain. Robert Shaw '60 was given command of the first black regiment, the success of which was largely due to his energy and ability. He was killed in the battle of Fort Wagner and was buried with...
Charles Lowell '54, of whom Major Higginson spoke at greatest length, was full of mischief and fun, always ready for anything, but a brilliant scholar, graduating at the head of the class of 1854, at the age of 19. After leaving the University, he was employed in a counting-room, and later worked as a mill hand, in order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take...