Word: skill
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The wonderful tricks of Hermann can be seen to-night and to-morrow only. He offers many new and striking evidences of his skill as a prestidigitateur. The Onofri Brothers and the Lorellas perform some difficult gymnastic feats, besides, and Valvose's ventriloquism is worth hearing. Nov. 1, Corinne Opera Company...
...constant vehicle for the burning thoughts of mankind. It is the art which every Harvard man would do well to cultivate, if he wish to distinguish himself and perhaps become even an editor of a College paper. But to make good verses - that is, good Harvard verses - requires considerable skill and tact; not genius, nothing so vulgar and trivial as genius...
...that is the establishment of a series of athletic sports with Yale. Our class boat-races arouse a great deal of enthusiasm, it is true, but the interest is as nothing when compared with the New London contests, where our representative oarsmen measure their strength and skill with those of our New Haven contemporaries. The same principle applies, as well, to base ball and football. The Yale games are always watched with much more eagerness than any others which our teams play. In the same way we cannot but feel that an annual series of athletic sports with Yale would...
Then came a squad of high College officials, mounted on ostriches, each bird being shod with gold, and wearing the shield of the University emblazoned on its breast. The skill of the riders did not seem to command the attention that it deserved, perhaps because they have so long ridden a high horse, that every one expected them to do it well...
...Class Races have come and gone. Never before has so much excitement been aroused over this event, and never before has the result been so contradictory to the expectations of even the most knowing. The Freshmen, by an unprecedented display of muscle and skill, in spite of a poor boat and of an unfavorable position, distanced all their competitors, and may well be proud of their victory. With such a good beginning, '83 may be expected to lead hereafter in other races, and to furnish fine material to the University Crew next year. But their success, instead of making them...