Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great interest is evidenced in the possibility of R. M. Sedgwick '20, University football player and oarsman, as the College heavyweight champion. His great weight and reach, combined with his skill in the squared circle, have caused him to be looked upon as the strongest pugilist in the College...
Other promising entries are G. W. Helm '20, captain of the University tennis team; C. P. Anderson '21, G. W. Connelly '21, J. O. Stubbs '21. In the featherweight class, followers of the manly art have given a slight edge to D. Wallace, a Freshman, who has shown great skill in the ring...
...Flers and Caillavet are two men who know all the secret receipts of their art and show an unusual skill in handling them. These three acts are written in a graceful poetic "honnete" and sentimental style that made it a success at the "Comedie Francaise" in 1911. It was a sort of reply to the excesses of the brutal and rough France much favored by some playwrights of the same date; the "theatre rose" after the "theatre rosse." "Primerose" pleased and still pleases the audience by an irony without bitterness, a satire without anger, and an "indulgence" in which witticism...
...favor of the custodians of the puck bag. Past performances give them the edge, for although they lack team-work and have no great individual brilliance, they have undoubtedly made it hot for the University sextet in each session thus far, and it has taken the utmost skill on the part of the latter to squeeze in, every afternoon, and finally outstrip them...
...Within the R. O. T. C. units sufficient skill in horsemanship and equitation will be required before members can become members of teams. This precaution is advisable in view of the mounted confidence which is such a vital necessity for good playing. On the arrival of the first equipment a few mounts now in the mounted detachment, though only poorly suited for team play, will be available for instruction and practice in hitting the ball...