Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...skill in rowing is required of freshmen who enter the scratch races...
...from those entered either by lot or by four men selected for that purpose by the boat club. These crews will probably be composed of experienced oarsmen, although a few inexperienced men may be taken to make up the requisite number. Of freshmen it is needless to say, no skill in rowing is required; indeed, the less skill the better. Therefore no one can refuse to enter from want of ability. The men will be chosen by lot, so that every one has an equal chance of winning a cup and fame. The prizes given will be pewter cups, which...
...heavy handicap which he did by steady playing. Presbrey beat Gillett two sets out of three. This leaves five players still in for the singles, Wheelwright who has the bye, Presbrey vs. Dr. Dwight, and Taylor vs. Shaw, a boy of fifteen, who has so far shown remarkable skill and has a large handicap...
...time appear in the college press, and in the boating reports of the principal daily papers. From both these sources the only impression that could be gained was that the university crew which Columbia sent to the Thames this year was, at best, of no greater strength and skill than those which have for the few previous years contested for the honors with our own representative eight...
...also to our own Professor, J. W. White, whose work on "Rythmic and Metric" is the basis of Mr. Jebb's metrical criticisms. In the appendix are notes on the Harvard performance of the play of which Mr. Jebb says "The thorough scholarship, the archeological knowledge and the artistic skill which presided over that performance invest the record of it with a permanent value for every student of the play." The thorough scholarship and the peculiar interest of this volume to Harvard men should make it a popular one here. The need of a library edition of the Greek tragedians...