Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shevlin says that boyhood ambition to excel in athletics was formerly the incentive that led athletes to take up boxing. While these men were young they boxed in the local gymnasium in a keen but friendly manner which developed that instructive knack of ring generalship that is so necessary in the making of a champion. This type of boxer was the product of the city neighborhood athletic club...
...statistics cited are possibly accurate, but entirely too much reliance may be placed on their supposed significance. The classics are avowedly difficult. By that very token the students who eject them are more likely to be men of the scholarly type, men who would naturally excel in any field of scholastic endeavor. Once this is admitted a certain stigma of futility attaches itself to the statistics of the League. The organization might employ its time to better advantage in showing the value of the ancient authors to modern thought, the message which the mellowed wisdom of the ages...
Mario Chamlee tells a diverting story about his first performance as the Duke in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. The baritone role was sung by De Luca. Now, De Luca is a very merry person, as are many who excel in tragic parts. His round, snub-nosed face was made for mirth, especially its wide, thin-lipped mouth, which even in repose is curved like a jocose crescent. When De Luca sings, he grimaces in such a way that his mouth carries the leer of a laughing satyr...
...Aura Lees were last year rated among the foremost Canadian teams, and their present performances would indicate that Coach Marsden's men are in no great danger of losing their reputation. The Toronto players excel in the passing game, which they have had the best opportunity to perfect during their three weeks of practice on ice this winter...
...puts the shot 39 feet; broad jumps 20 feet; and throws the discus 100 feet. He has reached only 10 feet in the pole vault this fall, though he had done 11 feet, 9 inches while still at school. In the seventh event, the javelin throw, he does not excel because he has never competed...