Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting set of the day and abounded in fast, accurate placing and brilliant returns. For the first three games of the last set Coues set a pace too hot for Herrick to hold, and apparently had the set hands down, but Herrick took the next two games by remarkably clever work and, after dropping one more game to Coues, won the last four and the set easily, Coues losing all his previous fine form, and knocking ball after ball out of court...
...Truth About Foxy Smith" wants the smoothness of diction of the story which precedes it, although there are several clever touches in the first part of the sketch. The plot has little originality...
...story "After Twenty Years," in the Advocate. The story which appears today is a student reminiscent sketch, depicting in a perfectly natural manner the abyss of mortification into which a particular seaside resort, a particular girl, and a particular masquerade ball plunged a certain college man. The plot is clever and well worked out and the language shows no inappropriate word or phrase...
...music of the play has been far ahead of any effort of previous years, and in the graduation of R. W. Atkinson, who composed a large part of it, the club will lose a very valuable member. Among the clever actors whom the club will also lose are J. Wendell, Jr., A. B. Nichols, and J. A. Parker. The first two especially have distinguished themselves as among the best actors that the Hasty Pudding has ever...
Tonight the curtain-raiser will be "Two Old Grads," a clever college sketch written by R. H. Post '91. It will be followed by the main piece of the evening, the "Obispah," the music of which has been composed by R. W. Atkinson '91, and L. S. Thompson '92, and the libretto written by B. A. Gould '91. Tomorrow evening Act II, Scene 2, from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" will be put on as a curtain lifter in place of "Two Old Grads...