Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These principles very soon developed themselves in Germany, and Professor Jahn of Berlin and his pupils, during the War of Independence, gave them a sudden and important celebrity. To the enthusiasm and skill of these young men, who formed the vanguard of Blucher's army, much of the fervent spirit of national resistance to the domination of the French is undoubtedly to be ascribed. The favor with which gymnastics were then regarded was universal. Kings and people vied with each other in extolling their worth and importance. But in the troublous times that followed the triumpus of the battle-field...
...upon the culture of the physical organism, for they knew that if the soil were not well tilled, ploughed and regenerated by fertilizers it could not produce the golden ear and the luxuriant sheaf. Both Homer and Pindar manifested great enthusiasm in singing the praises of bodily strength and skill. The laws of Lycurgus provided free training-schools for the thorough physical education of both sexes. Four different localities were consecrated to the Panhellenic games,' at which the athletes of all the Hellenic tribes met for trials of strength at intervals varying from six months to four years. The disgrace...
...constitute a change battery for practice games, but he has much to learn before he will be able to equal the reliable Stagg. Phelps, P. G., has played more or less during the course, but never on the University nine. He is a very good fielder, a fast and skill-full runner and a good batsman. He played third base on last year's "Yale Reserves...
...they have been serviceable to teachers and schools, and have helped to introduce into the secondary schools a rational teaching of science. The great variety of athletic sports which flourish at the university seems to the president to be "useful to the general end of cultivating bodily strength and skill and assuring physical health." Commenting further on athletics, he says...
...game they must meet in their opponents, they found themselves too light to successfully check the heavy rushing. The weakness of their forward line left too much tackling for the halves, who in turn were so used up by this tackling, that they had no strength to show their skill when the time came...