Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Simonson was prominent as a writer while in college, but after graduation, he went to Europe to study painting for which he had already shown considerable talent. Upon his return he designed scenery for the Washington Square Players in New York, until that company broke up on account...
Opportunities will be offered in the fields of acting, stage managing, business, scenery, costuming, properties, and electric lighting. Material for the cast is especially needed, which calls for several types of talent. All first-year men and others who expect to enter dramatic work in the University are invited to attend this meeting...
...kind of school for training in the art of applied kindness. The actual social service work is done mostly in the settlement houses of Boston and Cambridge, where so far this year over 250 men have been teaching and leading boys clubs of various kinds. One man with musical talent is leading an orchestra. Two other men, one an H. man in football for three years, are teaching a class in tumbling, a subject in which a football man ought to be proficient. Several men are coaching basketball teams, others are teaching drumming, telegraphy, boxing, and wrestling, and still others...
...real evil of professionalism is not that certain laborers receive their hire: it is that they take the place of the true amateur. Where the imported athlete flourishes, local talent withers. Each myrmidon deprives dozens of good men of the incentive to training. When the true amateur spirit prevails, a college centers its pride not merely in the prowess of its teams, but also in the gross number of its students who learn to love sport for the sake of sport and of the health in body and in mind which it engenders. No institution is secure in virtue until...
...prevailing tendency of all American preparatory schools to 'cut boys to pattern'. Now it can readily be seen what effect an atmosphere of this sort has on the young theatrical aspirant. He does not intend to be put to pattern. He wants an opportunity to train and develop his talent. So he immediately becomes labelled as a non-conformist, an experimenter, and finds no one to sympathize with his natural tastes. The second obstacle in the way of recognition by preparatory schools of the right of the creative artist is the all absorbing necessity of getting the boy into college...