Word: skill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been victorious over Yale. It is this year particularly desirable that her supremacy in this direction should be maintained, and the games of Saturday give very good grounds for the hope that it will be. The records made were in most cases very gratifying. Still more so was the skill in racing which many of the men showed. Harvard will put a strong team on the field on the eighteenth. Of the men who won places in Saturday's games, only one will be unable to compete against Yale, and that one took only a second place...
...time for handing in designs for Class Day tickets has been extended to April 25th. All seniors who have any skill in drawing are urged to compete...
...indeed, Mr. Tree dipped below the surface, but never sounded the depths. His Hamlet appealed to the eye, the ear, the nerves, sometimes to the heart; but seldom convincingly to the understanding, or deeply to the spirit. In general Mr. Tree treated the text with respect and with artistic skill...
Madame Janauschek has the complete equipment of genius on the stage; that is to say, not only the utmost skill of her art, but the more divine gift of quickly stirring her hearers with the passion of the scene. Notwithstanding her achievements as Brunnhilda, as Medea, as Lady Macbeth, and as Queen Katharine; probably her most memorable contribution to the history of the stage is the double character of Lady Deadlock and the French maid Hortense in the adaptation of Dickens's Bleak House...
...gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish Locandiera...