Word: skill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dental School has performed more than 125,000 practical operations, giving its experience and skill freely to all-comers. The school is now situated in Grove street and the building is inadequate to the present wants of the school. A better equipped building is needed. It is hoped that a desirable place near the school may be found for the site of the new building, and that the public will lend a generous support. The present members have done all in their power to sustain the school and now outside aid will be looked for. In the meeting today...
...Harvard Shooting Club has met with a creditable victory in its match with Yale. The match was held under favorable circumstances and the Harvard men shot with good judgment and skill. Last year Yale defeated us by nearly the same score. 115 to 101, owing to the fact that our men fell much below their usual average. The team which represented us this year was of good material, and we congratulate the club upon its victory...
...reflects great credit on the Conductor. Miss Wentworth, the soloist of the evening, sang her selections in a very pleasing manner and at the end of the series of songs she was recalled several times. Her voice is of an unusually pure, clear quality and is used with great skill...
...series this year were to be given up. There are few enough chances offered at Cambridge for a man who is not a decided athlete to engage in any sports or games. To exercise with the 'varsity or with a class team, he must show a good deal of skill in the game, and the man who has not this skill but who wants sport and exercise finds very few chances to get it. It was with a realization of this state of things that Mr. Weld generously gave Harvard the Weld Boat House, a place of exercise for those...
...Athletics are beneficial; (a) They discipline the participant. - (1) By fostering bodily strength and skill; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 68, p. 82. - (2) By developing many good points of character. - (3) By promoting best moral growth, by inducing the cultivation of good habits; Harper's, vol. 68, p. 300; (b) Competition in athletics arouses a healthy general interest; Harper...