Word: skill
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Committee Room of the Union last evening. W. Hunt '11 spoke of the advantages of fencing as a lasting exercise, suitable for everybody. H. S. Breckinridge 3L. mentioned the benefits to be obtained from fencing, saying that it was exceptionally suited for testing mental as well as physical skill...
...moralize give the effect of a school composition. "The Friend," a sonnet, though not quite musical and at the end not quite clear, may be called a "lovable" poem for its fine spirit and its unpretentious truth. The other poem, "The West," shows in the rhythm experience and some skill; but "meadowland" and "hinterland" make dubious rhyme, and "hinterland" is dubious English. Such verses, also...
...delicate title. It is hard to understand why this feeling exists at Cambridge, but it undoubtedly does exist, and it can only be done away with by the good record and the personnel of the various University teams. The game itself is very interesting to watch and requires great skill and staying powers from those who take part in it. That it is as successful here as at present is rather remarkable, considering the support it receives. Yet last year the University team won the championship of its league by good, heady playing against some of the best teams...
...reader formulates itself in the hearty wish that the contributors would write in English instead of in dialect. Whether dialect writing is of any philological value may well be questioned; that the reading of dialect is tiresome to a degree is certain. The same amount of labor and skill wasted upon such productions would be better bestowed on efforts to acquire mastery of a true English style and in developing powers of invention. Few are those who can overcome the handicap of dialect and produce a story worthy of the name in the strange forms of tongue so affected...
...fees for the various tests will be based on the skill and labor involved, and will be furnished on application. Special arrangements will be made with hospitals and dispensaries and with physicians dealing with charity patients...