Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Where money does not secure social position", he said, "it fails to be any motive at all. In the mining towns there is no way a man can register his superior skill except by loafing, and consequently the work is not so well done as it should...
...hands of the Jewett Company; in some respects it is better, and in a few instances distinctly worse. The parts are on the whole effectively cast--"Kate" was well played by Miss Willard, while Mr. Clive, Mr. Kingsford and Mr. Joy took their old parts with their usual skill. Miss Standing as "Constance Neville" had a hard role and was not always quite at ease...
...farce values, and the very rich comedy in it wholly neglected. Above all, the incident where "Diggory" delivers a letter stuck in a broom by way of a salver is palpably out of place. Also the numerous soliloquies, despite their difficulty, might have been given, with more skill. Once started, however, the play runs well, and mounts steadily from the beginning to a very creditable height in the third act and thereafter...
...features of the program this year is the increased number of meets for the Freshmen. The yearlings had very few opportunities to test their skill last season, but at least four meets are now on the schedule. The University squad is entered in several contests, and there will be, in addition, a number of practice meets. An innovation in the system this year is the establishment of a separate coaching staff for the University and 1925 squads. Coach Bingham will have charge of the University men, and the Freshman coach will be appointed as soon as the action has been...
...fatally injured in an automobile accident on Wednesday afternoon, December 21, at 5 o'clock when the car in which he was riding skidded as it was crossing a railroad bridge about a mile beyond West Brookfield. A. D. Welton Jr. '22, of Chicago, Ill., was seriously injured, his skill being slightly fractured and his arm broken, but reports now come from his home that he is out of danger. The other two occupants of the car, A. B. Hamilton '22 of Toledo, Ohio, and T. W. Norris '24, of Milwaukee, Wis., escaped uninjured...