Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...safe. Otto went down on the first ball and having reached second, started back to first as though he thought there had been a foul. Highlands and Dickinson caught him out and Dickinson also threw out Mackenzie who was trying to come in on the play. It was a clever attempt at a sacrifice and came near being successful. Brooks was out. Winslow to Dickinson. For Harvard, Winslow fouled out, O'Malley knocked a fly to Payne, Corbett got his base on balls and Highlands struck...
...play, which is a comedy in three acts, is well written, both incident and dialogue being often very clever. The part of John Brattle, private secretary to Pickletop, was well taken by Carleton Noyes '95, and Walter Van Kleeck in a rather difficult piece of character acting gave a creditable performance. One of the features of the comedy is a serenade by Bailey, White, Norton, and Van-Kleeck...
...passing from one piece of fiction to another, the attention is caught by the contrast between Pierre la Rose's "Toy Drama" and the "Solitude" of H. C. Greene. The former is a well told story, interesting through its clever introduction and treatment of persons who are acting from the most common of human impulses. "Solitude," on the other hand, while well told, derives its whole interest from the trials of an individual whom philosophical doubts have thrown out of harmony with the world. The meaning of the story is evasive, and to many who search for it will probably...
Several of the "College Kodaks" are unusually clever and entertaining. The Advocate ends with its new department, "The Glimpse," decidedly the least interesting feature of the number...
...yards novice was the first race to be run off. It brought out a very clever sprinter in Brown of Amherst, who won the finals in 4 4-5s., with Green '96, second, and Goldmark '94 third...