Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...played except by candidates for the University team and by members of the sevens competing in the scrub hockey series. To belong to either of these classes requires a certain degree of ability and more or less regular attendance at practice. Most undergraduates lack either the necessary time or skill, but to such men a daily hour of hockey would, nevertheless, be most welcome and enjoyable...
...handicap, is well up with Smith, although not quite so reliable in breaking up a well protected end run. Still he is a consistent player, and uses his weight to great advantage. So far this season he has scored nine points by drop-kicks and it is his skill in this department of the game that adds materially to his value. In the same way Felton's punting has been the best seen on the squad this year and showed up particularly well in the Dartmouth game against as able a punter as Ingersoll. As a receiver of forward passes...
...However, he is better than either of the other two on the defense and in getting down the field under punts. Wigglesworth, who played in the latter part of the Yale game last year, will play quarterback today. His ability is unquestioned and throughout the season he has shown skill in varying the attack and inspiring the team to do its best. In generalship he is a shade above Potter, who, however, has the better of Wigglesworth on taking risks. Both are fairly efficient at drop-kicks and can be depended upon to score inside the 25-yard line. Although...
...studied with Agassiz in the Cambridge Museum, and accompanied a scientific expedition to Brazil. He worked at painting under William Hunt, with John La Farge as a fellow pupil. His home training gave him power of expression, for in that home brilliant conversation and literary skill were traditional; while philosophy was at the same time set before him, on the one hand by his theological father and on the other by his rationalistic friend, Chauncey Wright. He early showed a strong distaste for such idealistic modes of thought as he believed obscured the concrete realities of experience...
John Pierpont Morgan, public-spirited citizen; patron of literature and art; prince among merchants, who by his skill, his wisdom, and his courage has twice in times of stress repelled a national danger of financial panic...