Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Doctor Grenfell has, from very small beginnings, established in unparalleled system of relief for the poor coast population of Newfoundland. He has combined a Christian purpose with medical skill, and has built up along the north Atlantic cost a string of hospitals and comfortable, attractive reading rooms where the men are taken care of and entertained. He travels from place to place in his three-masted relief boat and every summer he takes a limited number of Harvard men with him. These summer trips are invaluable experiences for any who are interested in medical service and mission work among...
...circulation and advertising editorships of the Harvard illustrated Magazine should report in the sacrum, Holyoke 14, any evening this week between 7.30 and 8.30. Special attention will be paid this year to illustrations. Undergraduates owning cameras will obtain good practice in photography on the art end and if sufficient skill is shown may have the use of the magazine's graflex camera. There are an unusually large number of positions open this year. Anyone with drawing, photographic, business or literary ability will find ample opportunity...
...artist of the future there is art. But the proposition that seems to be ignored is that for the future business man there are opportunities for the exercise and testing of business abilities. They pass by unnoticed. Here is a case crying for a man of administrative skill who has time to devote to its management. And still undergraduates and outsiders complain that there is no opportunity for the man of a practical turn to exercise his faculties...
...Dunbar's essay, with more variety of style but less skill and general finish seeks help elsewhere. Amid random shots at present evils that dishearten the poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities...
That the class is eminently practical has been proved by the number of men who have been trained until, developing a considerable skill in one of its a branches, they have become able members of minor sport teams