Word: skills
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some reason the importance of college games still depends largely upon their possibilities of physical injury rather than their potentialities of skill, and the spectators as well as the governing bodies hesitate to recognize any form of sport in which a player is not likely to be seriously hurt. Men who have played both university football and first-class tennis admit that a five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however...
...means let tennis be recognized as soon as possible as a collegiate major sport, where it belongs by every law of popularity, of physical demands and of standards of skill, so that eventually the last vestige of that stigma which has so long marked is as "a mere social diversion," will have been removed forever. New York Times
...that they have not long here below in this college world. When the CRIMSON editor has worked through the grades of his apprenticeship and reaches the presidency of the paper, he has one short half-year of life and then passes on to make way for a successor; his skill is necessarily gained late. These are reasons why most undergraduate publications have only streaks of success and long waste spaces of desolation and boredom; and conversely, the writing of graduate students and younger members of the instructing staff gives the Harvard Magazine an advantage of which it is unseemly that...
...Raffalovich has happily preserved his artistic innocence against the brittle formula of the American short-story. Power he has, and fine detachment, and skill. There the story is, layer within layer,--all distinct and complete. The peasants, the bureaucracy, the poet, the dullard, the maniac, the woman are almost ocularly visible, lightened a bit specially by the irony of title and touch, but real as they must be in their local habitation. "Patriots' All" is the best story I have read in any magazine in months...
...well. F. K. Bullard '20 who has given up rowing is showing speed and control on the mound and will be a strong factor on the pitching staff. W. B. Felton '19, who pitched on the 1919 team has been showing promising form and has lost none of the skill he exhibited in his Freshman year. From last year's Freshman team, C. B. Butterfield and F. L. A. Cady will push the two older men hard for places among the box-men. Only one or two left handed pitchers have reported and Coach Duffy desires to have at least...