Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...York during the recess, the University team appeared to be unusually strong. Some of the athletic club teams which they met expressed the opinion that this year's seven is the strongest college team they had ever played. It remains to be seen how much of this skill has been lost through lack of practice...
...imply any diminution of effort in striving to compete successfully with your neighbor in the big contests of the year; it does imply, however, an attempt to make athletics more a regular part of the daily occupation of a student by providing athletic exercise within the limits of his skill and strength. This is the kind of exercise he enjoys and which perhaps can be most beneficial...
...athletic reward is not as easy as it seems, at least in the case of football, according to the writer of the communication on another page. Is it right that the players on the second team, an organization distinct from the first squad and composed of men of less skill, should be given the insignia of "H 2nd" while those men on the first squad who are the substitutes for the first team are given no outward recognition in the way of insignia for their labors, unless they play in the final game of the year? No one questions...
...Called to the presidency in early manhood, he has administered the affairs of this University for forty years with eminent skill and fidelity. Its vast development during his term of service has been mainly due to his rare wisdom, his strong convictions, his enterprise and his zeal. Prompt to initiate reforms and fearless yet prudent in pressing them, he has by his constructive energy transformed Harvard College into a university, and at the same time has exerted an influence on the educational forces of the nation which has largely shaped their policy, so that he stands today the leader...
...President Eliot, who certainly will watch the young men with undiminished interest as they "look toward the fight," but whether he will be content to rest "careless of the war about" is doubtful. The other pieces of verse show differing degrees of maturity of thought, poetical feeling and constructive skill. The most ambitious of these is "A Night Song,"--a lover's homage to his beloved as the two sit together in a fragrant garden by the sea. The external situation is finely conceived--the reader feels the moonlight, the flowers, the booming of the sea, the isolation. Part...