Word: neat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very welcome because of their aptness. We should like to have seen more verse, perhaps, but the prose is some of the best that has been published this year and the drawings are very creditable work. A word must be spoken of the cover, for, simple and neat as it is, its arrangement is one that calls for great care in printing. On the second page is a short but interesting history of the Lampoon and a list of the most prominent editors who have belonged to it since the initial number in February, 1876. Upon the whole the issue...
...Gossiping Guide to Harvard, which takes its name from the Gossiping Guide to Oxford, is a neat little book of some fifty pages, describing briefly and clearly the places in Cambridge of interest to strangers and giving valuable information to one visiting them. Not to those only who are unacquainted in Cambridge will this book prove useful, for it contains many little facts of interest, unknown to a large part of those who feel themselves somewhat at home here. It also contains among others several cuts of the Longfellow house, Elmwood, and James Russell Lowell...
...three base hit by Whiting and a neat double play in the seventh inning by Walker and Whiting, together with the work in the last three innings were the best of Harvard's plays. Her two runs were made in the first and eighth innings, the first by errors and a wild pitch, the second by Whiting's three-bagger and Cassatt's sacrifice...
...consistently written. The description of the little old lady is so telling as to be worthy quoting, though it consists of only two sentences. "She must have been about sixty, but her face was one of those so thoroughly good that they almost seem pretty. Her dress was exquisitely neat, and her hair was drawn smoothly back from the forehead and partly hidden by an immaculate white...
...home before the vacation begins, asks some friend to sit in his seat at his lectures for him, so that he may not be marked absent. He then goes off, sometimes a week early, secure in the knowledge that his cuts cannot be detected. It is a neat and simple scheme, and seems to work very nicely, though it is rather hard on the poor fellow who has to go to double his usual number of lectures...