Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graduates' performance of Regnard's "Les Folies Amoureuses" was given by the Cercle Francais last night in Brattle Hall. The work of the cast as a whole compared favorably with that of last year's play, and two of the parts were acted with almost professional skill and address. The stage setting is a great advance over anything that has yet been attempted by the Cercle...
...instruction in his students' orchestra that young men players have passed from that to the famous Boston Symphony Orchestra. Chadwick's orchestra meets once a week and the musical student who enjoys this sort of music or wishes for any reason or other to acquire a considerable degree of skill in ensemble playing cannot do a more profitable thing than join it, or if he is not sufficiently advanced to play with this students' orchestra he can at first join a preparatory ensemble class and prepare for the more exacting playing of the full orchestra...
...Philippines where his work among the native has been many-sided and vigorous. In addition to furthering church and school work in the more uncivilized regions, he is engaged in the establishment of a cathedral and a hospital at Manila, where he has his headquarters. On account of his skill in dealing with the natives he has been appointed to serve on several important government commissions. Bishop Brent came to this country primarily to attend the Episcopal convention latterly held in Boston. He expects to return soon to the Philippines...
...provided with suitable assistance in their several departments, by the appoinment of instructors of lower grades, and of draughtsmen, foremen, mechanics, clerks or assistants, as occasion may require, my desire being that the professors be free to devote themselves to whatever part of the teaching requires the greatest skill and largest experience, and to the advancement of their several subjects...
...opposing pitcher or to drown out the signals of an opposing quarterback. These first three uses of cheering are perfectly proper, but when cheering is used for no other purpose than to disconcert an opposing team, the game, whatever it may be, ceases to be a test of skill of the two teams, and becomes a general contest, in which cheering plays much too important a part. While Harvard cheers are not used to disconcert other teams, it is hard to see sometimes how they could help but disconcert our own team, for no welcome falls flatter than a fainthearted...