Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early history of many a well conceived and worthy enterprise. The CRIMSON believes in the ideal of University thought expressed through the medium of debating. The expression of opinion, verbally and in public assembly is an old and dignified custom. It is an accomplishment requiring both courage and skill, and an occupation worthy of the highest intellectual and social orders...
...When the directors were exhausted trying to select a suitable director for the treacherously difficult Porgy they asked him if he thought he could do it. He said yes. They, fortunately, believed him. Just how an Armenian-Russian caught the spirit of the U. S. Negro with such astounding skill and subtlety nobody seems to know. Mr. Mamoulian explains it cheerfully by saying he is a Southerner, born in the Caucasus...
...greatest of all American books is remarkable for the illustrations in wood-cut by Mr. Eric Fitch Daglish. The New Statesman (London) says of him "since Berwick died, in 1812, there have been no wood-cuts of birds produced in this country which are fit to be compared for skill and faithfulness to the work, of Mr. Daglish." Edition limited to 500 copies for America...
...comparatively young man. In his fellow physicians he commanded respect and affection; in his patients the utmost confidence; and in students of medicine and young doctors, ardent devotion often close to hero-worship. He filled a high place in the medical world, not only because of his professional skill, but because of the unselfish spirit which lent the crowning light to a naturally charming personality. In the long illness which preceded his death the strength and beauty of his character was made even more clear to all who knew...
Even if the Hoosier Band had arrived to match its skill with the best Harvard can offer, there would have been no consternation in the stands. For Harvard has confidence in its musicians--only too often, indeed, it has had to depend on them to defend its glory on the gridiron. Those exercisers of lung and finger carry the Crimson standard high as they parade through the goalposts--before the game--and again when they return courtesy for courtesy between the halves. Only one really pernicious habit has cropped out in the Harvard Band. It made its first appearance...