Word: skill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...like to suggest that the subject for the second debate between Harvard and Yale be of a more collegiate and less political nature. There are plenty of such subjects which would prove of general interest and which would give an equally good chance for the debaters to exhibit their skill. We hope that steps will be taken for the choice of such a topic. In the arrangement for the first debate which is to be held at Cambridge the Harvard Union has been most commendably energetic. The management of that meeting will leave little to be desired...
...hard to say too much in praise of the rendering of the concerto by Mme. Hopekirk. The selection, in its three parts, gives ample opportunity for variety of expression and technical skill. It contains passages requiring the greatest power and force and others demanding great delicacy of touch. The rendering given by Mme. Hopekirk of these utterly dissimilar parts proves her ability...
...demanding good judgement of the requirements of schools in all parts of the country, and power to show them their need of the particular books recommended. In the advertising branches there is opportunity for the display of the greatest ingenuity; the life of a book may depend on the skill with which it is brought before the public; and, in general, the competition among different firms compels advertising to be novel and brilliant, to be eminently successful. Other departments of publishing also which afford good opportunities, are illustrating, management of agents' work, and subscription editions, and so forth...
...worthy and effective champion of the Irish cause. - (a) He united the Irish people on a definite object; Public Opinion, Oct. 17, 1891. - (b) He disciplined the Irish Parliamentary party to act as a unit; Nation, vol. 41, p. 254. - (c) He contributed to the cause his own unrivalled skill as a parliamentarian and a leader of men: Spectator, Oct. 10, '91; Nation, Oct. 15, '91; Public Opinion, Oct. 24, '91; N. A. Review, vol. 144, p. 622; McCarthy in Contemporary Review, Nov. '91. - (d) He substituted constitutional methods fer violence; N. A. Review...
...conception of Miss Austen,-which might be summed up in a few lines. While she "may not have seen so far into the deeps of motive as some of her successors, and may not have been able to trace the influence of circumstance upon character with as unerring skill, yet within her range-a range too, that is much wider than her superficial readers suspect-she has no equal...