Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opportunities to take photographs at College are unlimited. Almost every sport can be photographed in an interesting way, and the photographer gets all the opportunity he wants to use his knack and skill and ingenuity. Many notables come to a large university such as Harvard, and here again is an opportunity to take interesting pictures. By learning the art of photography, the college man can provide himself with a hobby and recreation in which he will find much pleasure later in life...
...acting, it was uniformly good. Mr. Gilbert, as usual, bore the chief burden with unfailing skill. Miss Clark made a charming ingenue and Miss Roach gave a capable rendering of "Ruth Armstrong". The entire company deserves great credit for the way in which, week after week, it is giving such commendable productions of the best in recent plays...
...remaining articles, consisting of Mr. Trumbull's outline of the football season and Mr. Kane's remarks on undergraduate support of the football team, are timely and interesting. The editorials seem generally slight, but they are written with technical skill...
...pointed out to their charges the most effective way to break up the various formations. Although the greater part of the work-out was held under the shelter of the Stadium, during the last part of the afternoon the men were sent out to work in the open, for skill in handling a wet and slippery ball may be essential Saturday...
...tendency to carry suggestion, rather than direct statement, of a fact or situation to the point of obscurity, and to this vice several of the contributors to the Advocate have fallen victims. The substitution of suggestion for straightforword declaration may become very effective when employed with moderation by such skillful hands as those of Kipling, who is probably the chief sponsor of the device; but since all followers are likely to exaggerate the tricks of their masters, it is a dangerous instrument for indiscriminate use. In the "Translation from the Navajo", the vicissitudes through which the author has to pass...