Word: skill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contest was held strictly on its merits, and the best team won, showing particular superiority in rebuttal, the final test of debating skill. The shortness of the time required by the judges to reach the decision shows conclusively that they felt little cause for hesitation...
Either has a moral right, however, to protest if the other forgets the amenities which are popularly ascribed to their long and traditional intercourse. Harvard's football players have a right not to wear the "H" if they consider their skill of too low a standard. They have no right, however, to remove the "H" when it implies an ungenerous criticism of an honored rival. But every Yale man can afford to pass that by unnoticed, since they readily understand the keen disappointment of your failure...
...would not have felt very badly at the revival of victory at Cambridge and yet no Yale man can stifle his pride in his football team for this year. Every Yale man was gratified that the revived relationship between the two universities was attended by such equal manifestations of skill...
...also a very keen taste for music as well as knowledge of the art and skill in composition. All this was of very great value in the study of literatures, whose whole poetry was based on that art. It was only through him that our Latin play in its ancient form became possible, and the music was all his work...
...name, he always put his best scholarship at the disposal of his friends. One of the best instances is the work which he gave to the revision of Lewis's (known as Harper's) Latin Lexicon, which, according to the editors preface, bears throughout the marks of his skill and critical scholarship. One of his smallest works, the pamphlet on Latin Proununciation, has indeed worked a revolution which even the learning of a Munro could never even begin in England...