Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...government in private business. This idea is foreign to the theory of our government of non-interference with private affairs. The history of the American colonies before the Revolution affords the most striking instance known to history of great industrial activity arising from natural advantages, and the intelligence and skill of the population. No tariff protected the colonies, yet there was a great diversity of industries, and these industries were remarkably productive, as is proved by the repressive measures of Parliament in the case of many colonial industries which began to compete with the flourishing industries of England. These obnoxious...
...displays; no doubt the game was exciting; no doubt, fine plays were made; but it was still painfully crude and undeveloped. Let us look at it now;-twenty-two men, carefully trained and in the highest possession of all their powers, contest the game with all the confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there is a possibility for fine work, all a man's energies, physical and mental, being brought into play. Instead of a must rushing hither and thither, we see brilliant runs, beautiful passes...
...most available men among the others were rather light in weight, and had but one year's experience in rowing. This year's crew, it was felt, would not be remarkable either for its size or strength. If anything was to be accomplished, it must be done by superior skill and activity. This fact was appreciated by Captain Storrow and his crew, and in consequence a more careful study of the principles of rowing has been made by the individual men than ever before. Every possible attention is paid to watermanship, especially to an effective and graceful method of handling...
...professors, are some of them. One of the principal causes of college supremacy, however, is found in the students. These young men go to college to be moulded into something better, and the success of this moulding process depends more on the ambition of the student than on the skill of the professor...
...rainy Saturday. On Thursday a game had been agreed upon with the Beacons, but as the latter did not put in an appearance, the nine were defrauded out of the only game that had been arranged for during the recess. The ground on Jarvis was so soft that little skill was shown, and no opinion could be formed as to our prospects in base-ball. The lacrosse team has not been practising systematically, but every day some of the men have been on Holmes...