Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the various sports supported by the College is lacrosse. Although only a minor sport, it is one of the best that exists. It holds for its players every good quality that one can desire. It provides exercise, requires skill, and develops mental alertness; it combines team play and personal contact between players...
...game provides exercise that is complete, the running and stick-work bringing every muscle into play. The skill required is of a higher degree than the stick-work in hockey, the latter primarily being work in one plane and lacrosse being in two planes. No mean skill is required to handle the crosse and ball. It is the development of this skill which makes lacrosse a game for men of all sizes...
...advance made in woodcutting when the designs of great artists were cut on the block by woodcutters who had gained skill by years of experience, is shown in examples from the work of Durer and Holbein. There are prints from the great series of woodcuts designed by Durer,--the Apocalypse, Passion, Small Passion, and Life of the Virgin,--and from Holbein's Dance of Death and Old Testament...
...playwright who attempts to infuse into his drama the age-old themes of passion and superstition must have a consummate skill if he is to avoid common banality or overwrought melodrama; and when, as is with the case with Jacinto Benavente in America, he is almost unknown to his audiences, and must assume the full burden of proff, his task increases tenfold. Yet Benavente is sufficiently a master of his art to have overcome these difficulties and presented a play of unquestionable merit...
Today, for the first time since the game in the Bowl, Harvard and Yale will match their strength and skill. The outcome of the hockey game is all but a foregone conclusion and the relay teams are nearly evenly matched...