Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surgical Unit, which was part of the British Expeditionary Force, and which worked near the firing line. Later he went to the war again as a surgeon in the service of the United States. To the football squad he was a rock of dependence, not merely for his professional skill in general but for his intimate knowledge of athletes and of those injuries to which they are peculiarly subject. He lived with an intenalty that crowded his every day and wore him out before his time...
Rowing is a good illustration of a fact often overlooked, that the receipts of the Harvard Athletic Association are used not only for developing a professional skill in a few students who are already strong but for exercising great numbers of students many of whom are constitutionally unfit for intercollegiate competition. In one or two sports the University squad alone contains men enough to make a small college. The total number of students benefited by the receipts of the Harvard Athletic Association goes into the thousands...
...year before he is eligible for intercollegiate athletics of any sort; and he must do this on the chance that at the end of this pauperized year the athlete, clearly not a man of ethical responsibility, will have a sufficient record in his studies and will show a sufficient skill in the game to be both eligible and chosen as a university player. Already this player has counted off at another college one of his three years of eligibility. when (and if) he becomes eligible in his new university, his patron must continue to support him, incidentally running the risk...
With characteristic skill, many of the metropolitan newspapers have taken up the University's problem of admitting negroes to the Freshman dormitories, and have mis-emphasized it in such a way as to give a false impression. A plain statement of facts is the only basis for judgement, and the letters printed on another page supply those facts. Students who discuss the question may be assured of one thing; that President Lowell has not acted hastily, and that he has acted as he believes is best for all interests. Regardless of personal bias, everyone must acknowledge that his explanation...
...were sent for service under my command in European waters, and I must admit that I was at first in doubt as to whether they would prove really useful in a profession involving not only such a variety of technical knowledge, but particularly actual experience to acquire the practical skill necessary to perform their naval duties under new conditions...