Word: skills
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...models,--for a guess, Tennyson in poetry and Pater in the prose. Of the poems, "The Death of Penelope" is by far the longest flight; and it is well sustained. The poet's observation of the scenic world is close and sympathetic, and it is matched by considerable skill of descriptive phrase. Of briefer compass, the lyrics are not without charm, notably, "Weitschmerz," "The Vision of Heart's Delight," and "Laughter and the Rain." The ethical impulse is strong in the author; but it is genuinely striving, not without success, to utter itself in forms of beauty. These verses fall...
Capper began his athletic career at Brookline High School where he played on the football team and began his development as a track star. At high school, he ran the sprints, the low hurdles, and the quarter, besides doing a little broad-jumping. His skill in each of these events kept him from specializing in any one of them and it was not until last year, when he had been shifted to the half-mile, that he began to show really championship calibre. In his Freshman year, Capper ran the quarter against Yale and took second place. Last year...
...second half, Cornell's first attack, Danforth, proved to be the star of the game by making four more goals, as much by individual skill as through the aid of team-work...
...current number of the Harvard Musical Review for March is true to the principal cause of its organization; i.e, the conviction that there was sufficient interest in musical matters among the students of the University and adequate skill in the expression of personal views to warrant a special magazine devoted to music. The leading article on "Opera and the City" by S. F. Damon, is indicative of the serious attitude which Harvard men take in regard to the present condition of opera in Boston and the question of its steady growth or gradual decline. It is an open secret that...
...current number of the Advocate should be dedicated to O. Henry, for the three stories depend on the problem of mistaken identity which he handled so supremely well. Of them, P. R. Mechem's "Burley knows a Cubist" alone is done with any particular skill. The style in description and conversation is light and the characters are cleverly sketched, although the close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing...