Word: skill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game between the Rovers and Olympics on Jarvis field Saturday was seen by about fifty students. Those who saw it were surprised at the amount of skill shown by the players, who in spite of being mostly workmen who can get off only only or two afternoons in the week to practise, had been used to the game so long as to have a great deal of prowess. Several men who came up with the team. The opinions of those who saw the game were various. Some who had not played foot ball thought the game rather tame and monotonous...
...large numbers of students who would take every opportunity to go out and kick the ball. It is by no means necessary to play a hard game to get pleasure out of it, for in association foot ball merely kicking and bunting the ball affords so much chance for skill that even two men may amuse themselves in playing against each other...
...general the work of the clubs was very gratifying. The Glee Club has seldom before shown, uniformly throughout a performance, such skill and ability, and the leader and other officers of the organization have brought up the club to an exceedingly high standard. The other clubs also have reached a high deree of technical skill, and delicate effect...
...President King had chased the foot ball on the Delta forty-two years ago the glory was all to the strong and the heavy. In 1890 he had tangible evidence that the victory upon which all Harvard men congratulated themselves so much was the result of intelligence, skill, agility and courage as much as of the strength and weight of the contestants. Strange as it might seem to the younger men, this fact was quite a revelation to some of the older men who had got all their ideas of foot ball from newspapers. He congratulated all Harvard men that...
...famous comedian, will return to the Tremont Tremont Theatre this evening in the "Henrietta." Besides the high standing of Mr. Robson, the Henrietta is a play which has aroused a high degree of interest wherever produced. In this comedy Mr. Howard has blended stocks, sentiment and humor with rare skill. The play is a satire brightly and wittily written, which possesses a serious vein for effective dramatic interest. For the second and last week Mr. Robson will offer his new comedy, "Is Marriage a Failure?" a query he will most amusingly answer...