Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last hockey match did not give Harvard the victory once and for all. The outcome was not a decisive determination of superiority. Tonight, that victory is to be refought. Both teams are determined, the margin of strength and skill is narrow, and the safest predictions will be made tomorrow...
...gratifying, to a member of the teaching staff, to observe that these undergraduates have acquired the knack of "go-getting". They evidently know how to find the evidence they want, and they have considerable skill in presenting that evidence effectively...
...advent of motion pictures and the automobile are going to cause the college man to displace the working boys from the peak of the boxing world, according to Billy Shevlin, boxing instructor at the University. Hereafter college men will rank first in boxing skill as in football...
University undergraduates and alumni play a prominent part in the fancy skating acts which will be introduced during the course of the Carnival. N. W. Niles '09 and Mrs. Theresa Weld Blanchard, pair skating champions of the United States will give an exhibition of their skill between the periods of the hockey game, while several students at the University, including P. A. Escher '27, renowned Swiss skater, will perform a surprise number. Miss Mirabel Vinson, national junior singles champion, will also give an exhibition of fancy skating in a singles act. There will be several other numbers of great interest...
Best of all were the good spirits that pervaded the entire production. Brim-full of enthusiasm, skill, and speed, the players, singers, and dancers in "Dixie to Broadway" got their stuff across to the last row; the audience was only too glad to come back with a glad hand...