Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumni, undergraduates and friends of Harvard are urged to refrain completely from offering any inducement to any schoolboy to enter Harvard, when the compelling motive in so doing is that boy's athletic skill or promise. The Athletic Committee feels that artificial hospitality of any sort, such as trips to the university, automobile rides, the are parties, etc., constitutes an "inducement," under the meaning of this resolution, little less mischievous than offers of money, jobs, and other valuable considerations, which have been already specifically condemned. The Athletic Committee believes that persons attempting to induce schoolboys to enter Harvard for athletic...
...individual of the poems. I wonder why it is secreted at the very end of the number. Of the five sonnets, Mr. Hull's "To a Cat" and the sestet of Mr. Cabot's "Late Spring" stand out as something more than a succession of words arranged with varying skill in a predetermined pattern. Mr. Morrison's "Song" contains two or three significant lines and flows along sonorously. In "Lines," Mr. Behn has conveyed a single impression through the medium of a successfully irregular verse pattern. The poem is a little too long for its purpose and contains too much...
Dancing acts are featuring the program at Keith's this week, with the nimble Mosconi family heading the bill. The unusual skill of this accomplished family makes their performance probably the most entertaining dancing act on the present vaudeville stage. The originality and art of the whole family--four brothers, sister, and father--is worthy of high praise...
...afternoon the Crimson foilsmen closed their regular season by registering a 5-4 win over Yale in Hemenway Gymnasium in the closest meet of the season. J. F. Leicester, the Yale captain, proved himself the most brilliant individual fencer by winning all three of his bouts with the same skill which he had shown in the meet that morning with M. I. T. Captain R. H. Snow '20 and G. P. Howard '21 each won two bouts and S. H. Ordway '21 contributed the match which determined the victory for Harvard by his 16-13 defeat of L. F. Bishop...
...Dartmouth team, which had defeated M. I. T. on Friday showed especial skill in the tumbling event...