Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some measure an outgrowth of the annual "Christmas Carol Service" in Appleton Chapel, where choruses from the two colleges have for several years sung together successfully, the joint concert tonight by the Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Clubs is a distinct innovation. The Music Department has devoted much time and skill to training the two organizations together for several weeks past, and as a result the program for tonight contains classic songs of a nature more ambitious than either club could have successfully attempted by itself. There is every reason to hope that this may become an annual musical event...
...Freshman association football team was defeated Saturday afternoon by a team from the Prospect Union by a score of 7 to 1. The Prospect Union team distinctly outplayed the Freshmen, who still showed a lack of skill and team work...
...Mills has a real voice. Messrs. Freedley and Hollister also do some spectacular dancing in the second act, and Mr. Sortwell clogs like a professional. The chorus is nimble and willing, though not always unanimous as yet, and countless details of arrangement staging, and business show the skill that we have learned to recognize as Mr. Sangers. The dialogue is light and rapid, and succeeds both in leading up naturally to the situations and in affording frequent provocation for song. Three of the principals--Messrs. Hodges, Freedley, and Spelman, have the distinction, rare among amateurs, of getting all their lines...
Harvard's supremacy in debating is again restored. Last evening the two teams representing the University won from their opponents, Yale and Princeton, and showed marked superiority in the presentation of the subject and skill in reasoning. These victories show that debating at Harvard is not declining because it is more in the hands of the undergraduates, for every member of the team against Yale is a student in the College. With the assurance that debating on an undergraduate plane is worthy of the best support because capable of good accomplishment, this excellent form of intellectual activity should continue...
...Museum has recently placed on exhibition a small but beautiful Turner oil sketch on paper, which is a temporary loan from Mr. William Emerson '95, of New York. The subject is a wood interior, and the difficulties are handled with rare skill by the master...