Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side of the Harvard play into something very like pretentiousness and advertisement. The photographs of the performers are quite as ridiculous as those of the ordinary amateur who has made a "hit" in private theatricals, and, what is worse, these young men have been posed with all the horrible skill, the exquisite bad taste, of a fashionable photographer...
This is a matter which should be carefully attended to, so that the contests in foot ball between our American colleges may be trials of skill, rather than exhibitions of brute strength. Let us hope that an improvement in this direction may soon be seen, and that our men may anticipate a pleasant game with Yale instead of a free fight...
...wish to give a word of caution to the Freshman Nine about training. The Nine which represented '84 last year was not at all creditable to the class, and, with few exceptions, was composed of men who displayed in their playing no more skill than could be reasonably expected of beginners. They were, however, players of some experience, a fact which makes them all the more worthy of censure. Their carelessness in training was the cause of their overwhelming defeat by Yale, and rendered their second game little more than a farce. We trust that the present Freshman Nine will...
...could properly edit a "Harvard" Shakspere, and that man was our own Professor Child; it had also occurred to us that there were other books than those prepared by Mr. Hudson on our shelves and in use in our Shakspere classes, - namely, the series edited with so much skill and accuracy by Mr. William J. Rolfe, of Cambridge, and also the excellent Clarenden Press manuals of Mr. W. Aldis Wright. And in the critical line we had always supposed that Dowden, Ulrici, and Werder over-topped the Magnate of Boston University. But it seems we are wrong - in Mr. Hudson...
...Lawn tennis poorly played may be uninteresting, but not childish; for even in the early stages of learning, when the art of the players is but little advanced, we who are not intimately acquainted with the game can nevertheless see how broad is the field for the acquirement of skill. If a Yale-Harvard tennis tournament be arranged for next spring, the result, if favorable to us, will possibly be received with as much pleasure as the late victory of the Lacrosse Team...