Word: skill
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Kneisel Quartette gave the fourth of its Cambridge Chamber Concerts in the Fogg Lecture Room yesterday evening. The programme was well selected, and was rendered with the usual skill and excellence of the quartette. The contrast between the grace of the Mozart quartette, the tender dignity of the Beethoven, and the plaintive qualities of the Dvorak was exquisite...
...Museum has also received a large number of Indian baskets, chiefly from California. Some of them are highly ornamented and made with unusual skill...
...word "truth" has a meaning in every day use among men of all sorts, sincerity, frank speech, straightforward conduct, the absence of deceit. Truth is the motto of him "whose armor is his honest thought, and simple truth his highest skill." This kind of truth, however, is not the special virtue of the student or of the scholar, and has no more connection with the University than with life elsewhere. Yet thought rather than action is our object here, and so "truth" may be our peculiar motto. The man in public life, for instance, is obliged to overlook minor agreements...
...advanced by Mr. Storrow. Nothing has occurred since to impair the soundness of the reasons which induced the adoption in 1876 of four miles as the distance. The longer race is a better test of the rowing ability of the crews, for the longer the race the more skill in rowing, and especially in crew rowing, counts, while mere individual strength is less important. To win a four mile race requires a long period of thorough and careful preparation. If the length of the race is shortened, there would be danger of a tendency towards insufficient preparation...
...result has been that the whole energy of the great student body of the University, of the graduates, of the candidates for the team, of the University authorities, the coaches, doctors, trainers, and every one connected with the establishment, was directed with such skill that it gave to the whole mass a momentum such that it carried Harvard through to a victory so complete that it was unprecedented in her annals. W. CAMERON FORBES...