Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Spirit of Christmas Eve"), which shows little individuality, and not much responsiveness in vocabulary. Mr. Wheelock appears twice in this number, neither time in a Christmas spirit and neither time at his best. "The Return after Death" is ambitious and in spots effective, but suffers from want of metrical skill and from occasional weakness of word. The "Song," though less faulty, is also less interesting. It is noteworthy that both poems tell of a love which shall be "not as before...
...author of "The Best of It," has, on the other hand, conspicuously failed. Turning to the morally pestilential life of a certain watering place, here called Nouvean Isle, he recounts with zest an incident which, though improbable, might have been made amusing. He is, however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse, he seems to take a sophomoric delight in degenerate aspects of social life...
Recent football seasons.--especially the one just past--have shown us that we do not lack men with enough sand and skill to deserve to be on winning teams. What we do lack each year is the benefit of the past year's experience. Football coaches are no different from other men in their failure to profit by the experience which others, have had. In order to gain a fund of practical coaching experience and football knowledge which can put our teams into the running again, we must have at the head of our football one man whose circumstances...
...already settled. Those who are familiar with the Harvard team, however, very justly feel that it has possibilities which have only cropped out now and then in the early games. They know that a majority of the players are facing Yale for the last time, and that all their skill and energy will be used to bring a victory...
Next Saturday Yale's renowned offence and Mr. Camp's skill will be opposed by a less impressive team developed by coaches of less experience. But the Harvard team is made up of strong players, and of fighters who will use everything they know to win a victory. Let the undergraduates do all that is in their power to assure the team that the University is behind them to a man, and that no one who is worth while will admit defeat any more than the players themselves...