Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enlisted personnel are recently issued orders directing that polo is to be promoted wherever possible in the service. Realizing the combination of mental and physical activity which polo requires of players, it is well designed, from the very nature of the game, to further the development of horsemanship, skill and daring. This plan, which every commanding officer is directed to immediately set in operation, has a special significance to colleges where units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are established, for polo, nationally, is undoubtedly one of the major sports, and is only limited in civil life to the expense...
...Skill in Horsemanship Prerequisite...
Tonight Harvard's hockey team will meet Yale in an attempt to follow the example of the victorious eleven. Although the record of early season games shows no victory for the University upon the ice, the complete stories of those contests tell a tale of increasing strength and skill on the part of the Crimson team which makes the combination appear fully capable of handling its blue-clad opponents. In order to wrest the victory from Yale, however, the sextet will be forced to show a faster, keener brand of hockey than it has disclosed thus far. The Eli team...
...another great renaissance of education," he said, "and we should turn to drama and demand that it should do its part. There is a small amount of good acting and a large amount of preposterously bad acting at present. The tradition of acting is broken, the old skill has departed and the art has declined. Drama will never really be able to contribute to the enjoyment of life until this old spirit is revived...
...younger generation seems absolutely oblivious to the gross crudities which are perpetrated on the stage today, and do not seem to take any artistic pleasure in the skill of the art," continued Mr. Barker, To improve the acting of the present day, Mr. Barker suggested two innovations. One was that there should be regularly established schools, in which connection, he made the statement that acting should be recognized as a part of general education; and the other was that there should be more co-operation among the actors themselves...