Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaves from Bossi's exercise book would have been more acceptable had not his "Theme and Variations" suffered so acutely from melodic poetry. As it stands the technical skill it displays is hardly sufficient excuse for its production. The overture to the "Meistersinger" and the manner in which it was played deserve only praise. Its beauty will survive when many of the clever modern cacophonies have long been forgotten...
President Eliot asserted that each pupil should acquire some technical sort of skill, either with tools, with the fine arts, with music, or in domestic science. Every student, furthermore, ought to be carefully and certainly taught the means of resisting the evils to which we are exposed on the earth, "particularly those parts of it which we call civilized. These evils include not only pests and infections, but moral as well as physical dangers...
...University swimming team has been projected, and if enough interest is shown, it seems probable that Crimson swimmers may again have an oportunity to demonstrate their skill. Mr. William J. Bingham '16 has declared himself in favor of the revival of swimming as a minor sport, and has signified the willingness of the Athletic Association to furnish a coach and the expenses of meets and pools...
...Samuel Wesley Stratton, Director of the Bureau of Standards in Washington, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Stratton has been connected with the Bureau of Standards for the past twenty-five years, and it is due to his scientific ability and skill as an organizer that it has grown from next to nothing into a great organization of world importance...
...Dixon '25 6-0, 6-1. Although Turner has to play one more match before he reaches the semi-finals, he is counted on to win and to give Herndon a good fight in the semi-finals. Turner has revealed a style of play that includes a fast service, skill in placing, and an ability to get his racquet on any ball for a good return...