Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...years and marks a turning point in the football season. Up to this time the weakness of our opponents has allowed the coaches to try out a large number of men, but from now on the eleven will gradually assume shape and begin to approach in team play the skill which characterizes certain individuals. Needless to say this game will be watched with great interest for its bearing on the ultimate prospects of the season; but, whatever the score may be, the contest is not likely to be one-sided. The Harvard team is not one to be rattled...
...direction at critical times. The individual men played very creditable games, but it was only occasionally that they got together enough to make a concentrated attack. The ball, however, was kept well in Yale's territory during the whole game, the defense seldom having a chance to show its skill...
...special cars to Boston, where a speedy craft of the nature of a steamboat, will carry the noble army to Nantasket Point. Refreshments of a liquid nature will be served en route. During the day, the athletes and other members of the class will indulge in sports of skill and games of chance. Nantasket Point will be reserved exclusively for the class and their lunch, an old-fashioned clam-bake on the rocks...
...distinguished from the other two stories by greater maturity of manner and evenness of development. These other stories are at once unconvincing in content and ragged in style. A "Double Campaign" contains a sufficiently humorous idea, which, however, the author has not taken time or has not the skill to develop; and it is written in an ejaculatory style, tiresome event for two pages. In "The Landing of an English Snob," an idea not very humorous in itself is treated with some incidental humorous touches. All three stories share in various degree the common defect of seeming theme-like...
...accepting Dean Richardson's resignation, the Corporation records its sense of the obligation under which the Medical School has been placed by his long and devoted service as professor and dean. The clinical resources of his own department have been built up and admirably organized through his skill and public spirit; and during his administration the whole School has made remarkable progress as regards the requirements for admission and the efficiency of its methods and equipment. The University and the community share in the fruits of this important service...