Word: talenting
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...high time for the committee to meet again and take active steps for the consummation of the project. As to the urgent need for a representative Harvard song book there can be no question. And it is certainly to be hoped that there is enough enterprise and talent in the university to produce a volume that shall be worthy of the college. It is true that with the departure of '82, Harvard lost some of her most talented writers of verses, besides two of her ablest song composers, Messrs. Burton and Wister; but still enough remain to guarantee a reasonable...
...score of 9 to 0, has been somewhat severely commented upon. The series of games for the class championship were instituted chiefly with a view to drawing out the men of '86 who are fond of the sport, and of giving an opportunity to the base-ball talent of the class to develop itself. And although the previous practice of the nine may not have warranted him in feeling secure of victory, still that was no excuse for his not putting in an appearance at the proper time, and consequently defeating to a certain extent the original object...
...French critic (name not given) is quoted as declaring that Mrs. Langtry is a charming woman, absolutely devoid of dramatic talent...
...have to do the practice know the college as a unit is thoroughly interested and alive to this department of athletics. Let '86 not be backward through a false sense of modesty, but work with the other classes, and she may be sure that if she has the talent it will be immediately recognized. If all will take hold with a will we trust that when the foot-ball season is through the victories of the crimson will not be eclipsed by those of the blue...
...growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth, and so he does not write only of a theme to which college poets have so long devoted their talent and occasional genius, that, despite the universality of the tender sentiment, they have made it pall upon us and caused us to hear with pleasure the other notes that come home to our hearts from "the harp-strings by nature's palm so joyous struck," to use Mr. Hudgens...