Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening in Brattle Hall the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity gave Oliver Goldsmith's play, "The Good Natured Man." The performance showed a good deal of careful training, and much credit is due to Professor Baker and Mr. Hayes. The play itself, apart from its clever dialogue and amusing situation, is very interesting. It shows the differences of construction, notably at the end of each act, between Goldsmith's time and the present...
...Harvard in the Sixties," by H. G. Palfrey, is interesting. The reader is surprised at all the great changes which thirty years have wrought. The Turk Fighter is a clever sketch. It describes the ingenius way the inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space...
...Honor," by Austin Corbin, Jr., is a decidedly clever essay, though one cannot help feeling that the cleverness is misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...
...Matthew Went Beyond the Mountains" is a clever story by Henry Alexander Phillips. The conventional Yankee country people are treated with pleasing freshness...
...about the world of London and indulge his passion for talk, that we know him best. Boswell is the clear medium through which succeeding generations behold Johnson in London, at the club, in the Hebrides, with his poor folk, as well as with the many pretty and clever women whom Johnson had added to the list of his acquaintance. But one of the less known anecdotes of Johnson makes clear what, in spite of success and reputation and the pleasure of being dictator-or, to use Smollett's word, the great Cham of literature-remained a pervading quality...