Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hobson, '86; negative, N. E. Coffin. '85, F. E. E. Hamilton, '87. The speeches of all these gentlemen were very able, and at times eloquent, and no better debate from the principal speakers has been heard this year than was listened to last evening. The vote on the skill of argument of these disputants was 15 to 2 in favor of the nagative. When the debate was thrown open to the house the following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Messrs. Sternbergh, '87, and Elgutter, '87; negative, McAfee, '87, Mahaney, '88, Merriam, '86, Garrison, '88, Hammerslough, '88, Saunders...
...Boston Herald will say this morning that the '86 Signet succumbed before the superior skill of the seniors in swinging the sceptre at the seductive sphere yesterday morning. Score 20 to 11; base hits, '85, 15-20; '86, 6-9; errors...
...Botany, and in place of the Hebrew, a course in elementary Fine Art where "practice in Drawing, including the use of water-colors, forms a considerable part of the work." That many men select such courses is not hard for anyone to believe who has seen the great skill often exhibited in the choice of easy subjects in other colleges. That it is practised in notorious...
...freshman crew has shown a gratifying improvement in the last two weeks, and will undoubtedly take a better place than would have been accorded it some weeks ago. The men now handle their shell and oars with some skill, and are rowing well together with a steady, strong stroke...
...wind was blowing from the starboard side, so that neither of the crews made very fast time. In the start at the Brookline bridge, eighty-six, by rowing a very fast stroke, man aged to lead the university crew for a short time. Gradually, however, the superior skill and muscle of the latter crew brought it to the front. When the crews passed the Crescent boathouse, about one-half mile down the course, where the senior crew was watching the race, the university crew had an easy lead of about two lengths. By rowing a longer and better finished stroke...