Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mitchell's coaching of catchers is no less remarkable than his skill in developing pitchers, for Gowdy, a man who had drifted back and forth between the majors and minors, after a few months under Mitchell became the leading catcher of the league...
...known to graduates and undergraduates alike that the name of Harvard University is becoming, along the Western battle-front in Europe, synonymous with generosity, courage, and devotion to humane service. The two hospitals of the Ambulance Americaine in France are supported by American money and operated by American surgical skill, which has won for them pre-eminent place, recognized by the military and medical authorities on the Continent. Harvard has already contributed a surgical unit from her medical school for a three months tour of service, and other surgeons who are Harvard men are now there in the Lycee Pasteur...
...college rowdyism, or "rah rah" spirit at Harvard. And for the majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...
...Harvard students was refreshing. I have yet to hear a word of satisfaction either in the punishment of Yale teams. One and all the students have expressed their sympathy with their fellow-students of a rival college and their regret that such a player as LeGore, admired for his skill and respected for his personal qualities, should no longer match himself against Harvard men. With warm admiration for the Yale authorities in athletics, some of us yet believe that the reform of an evil, provided the evil is not a crime, begins best after clear warning, and that the penalty...
...late years the University has been weak in the hammer. This is an event which requires several years to master. For this reason it is important that a man start training for it his Freshman year if he wishes to attain success. For men with some skill at handling themselves, the pole-vault offers a fertile field for development...