Word: skill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...natured sort of playing is allowed. This tendency, which is sure to result disastrously, should be put down at once and the men made to feel that while they are practicing they are not supposed to be amusing themselves, but training for a contest which will require all the skill and experience which they can possibly gain in the time allotted to them. If the men do not realize this now, it devolves on the freshman captain to see that his charge is imbued with the proper spirit. The college looks to him as the person responsible for the earnestness...
...Kishimoto's exhibition of Japanese top-spinning which came next was something entirely new, and he showed great skill and dexterity in his management of the top. After a little juggling with the top while it was in motion he began the second part of his act which was really wonderful...
...place and thereupon suffered death at the hands of the Volcian, Attius, his associate in the enterprise." The overture is very impressive, beginning with the huge C given by the strings with all their might, followed by a short, sharp chord from the entire orchestra, and developing with great skill to the touching close - three staccato notes in the strings only, as soft as possible, "preceeded by fragments of the original themes, coming like inevitable death on the broken purposes of the hero." The overture was finely played though perhaps a little too dramatically...
...performance on the double trapeze by F. W. Moore '93 and R. Macallister '93 was by all odds the best event of the meeting. Their feats were difficult and carried out with a show of great strength and skill. The whole would have done credit to professional performers, to say nothing of amateurs...
...management desires a large number of entries in the potato race. Although this event does not require as great skill as some of the others, the prizes are the same as those given for the other events. It is very desirable that more enter...