Word: skill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play of Hamlet is unceasingly attractive in its human and dramatic power. Throughout the tragedy there is an artful blending of realism with high poetic skill. The drawing of the characters is definite, keen, and very impressive...
This means a great deal. It means that the undergraduates of whom the Camera Club is in large part composed, are developing a skill in photography which in its best results can not be surpassed by either amateur or professional work today. This artistic skill is not confined to one or two individuals, nor to one or two photographs. The number of those who exhibit sets of great merit is increasing from year to year; while the particular photographs which in the present exhibit have received prizes, have been picked out as a mere formality from a number which...
...graduates, as a body, back Mr. Watson, the undergraduates must do the same. Entire confidence, one in the other, we in Mr. Watson and his methods, Mr. Watson in us and our skill as oarsmen, is necessary and must be had, that rowing may once more be established upon the sound basis where it stood when Mr. Watson was at the helm before...
...from study or exertion of any kind in the evening. Such a state of over-training as this would indicate is so evidently suicidal to the interests of the crews, that we hardly feel it necessary to make any protest to the men who have been chosen for their skill in directing training. But over-training has always been such a common fault with even the best of coaches that we urge the captains to see to it that in their ambition to turn out winning crews they will not forget what is obviously their own interest...
...slides were shown from the clubs of Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Syracuse and Buffalo. The slides as a whole gave evidence of artistic and sympathetic treatment, - the work of the eastern clubs being decidedly the best. The exhibition comprised views of many kinds, of which those from nature showed most skill. The portrait work was least successful...