Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first meeting of the Freshman Golf Club last evening H. K. Clay '25, president of the University Golf Association, encouraged new men to enter outside tournaments as well as the University contest of the coming week. Thus the association can discover how much golfing skill there is in the University and will be able intelligently to direct the Freshman club, which is being reorganized. At the end of next week a meeting will be held to elect officers...
...addition to Zarakov's skill at carrying the ball, Exeter profited by the clever foot-work of Lundell, who made many long punts...
...dabbled in chess at some time or other. Many still play, usually against one steady antagonist whose methods they penetrate and whose methods they penetrate and whose game accordingly becomes tiresome. The club affords an opportunity for any member of the University of contending weekly against adversaries of varied skill, of playing in matches against different metropolitan clubs every Friday, and of representing the University in the Yale meet at New Haven and in the Intercollegiates at New York...
...self defence is a splendid thing for any young man to learn. It sets him up physically; prepares him to stand his ground if assaulted; and renders the body a splendid instrument or the mind and spirit. And, for the sake of stimulating interest in the sport, contests of skill are needful...
Much of the entertainment which the play affords is due to the high quality of its presentation. There are lines-not a few of them of whose Victorian conventionality one would be painfully aware were it not for the skill of rendering. Mr. Clive's curtain speech, "She sha'n't, she sha'n't, she sha'n't", at the end of Act Two is an excellent example. Without exception however, the cast rendered their parts well. Miss Cleveland was occasionally unconvincing and Mr. Turner's Romeo-like sobbing under the stress of grief was a bit absurd...