Word: skill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...events except in putting the shot in the Gymnasium. The shot-putting contests which have been held from time to time have been of some benefit, but have not brought out as many men as it was hoped they would. Putting the shot requires not only strength but considerable skill, which cannot be acquired all at once. There are many heavy men, however, who, although not having the necessary skill and qualifications for this event, are well fitted to throw the hammer; and as out-door work is practically assured from now on, all who can help the team...
...recognized athletic contests, between the large colleges is a most satisfactory step. The game has been growing popular so rapidly that it will undoubtedly occupy a prominent place among American sports in the near future, especially since the qualities required in a successful golf player are skill and steadiness rather than remarkable physical endowments...
Professor Chamberlain began his lecture by pointing out that the modern inventive activity of man has long been foreshadowed among primitive peoples. There has been something of mechanical skill in them all, and this instinct has in many cases been brought to a great degree of practical perfection. In the great majority of cases, in primitive folk-lore, the origin of all invention has been attributed directly to the God or Great Spirit. His very name has in many cases meant simply maker, shaper or in some cases even potter. He has been thought to have originated every single thing...
...before the public with a vividness never before possible the glories of ancient Greece. After his work at Olympia he carried on the excavations at Troy with Dr. Schliemann, and although Dr. Schliemann's name is more familiar in connection with Troy, it was really Dr. Dorpfeld's technical skill and wide experience that made the former's works possible. He next undertook with Schliemann excavations at Tiryns, Orchomenos, and in Crete; and, after Schliemann's death, returned to complete the work at Troy. His most important work after this has been in Greece, especially in and around Athens...
...Yale men had some hopes for another trial next year, should Driscoll defeat Whitman; but the Georgetown player, who took the lead at the start, fell off after winning two games, as he was plainly out of form and did not play with the same skill that signalized his game against Ware yesterday...