Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...account of the great expansion of the University in recent years, the formation of some such committee as that for the Reception of Students was clearly needed. Newcomers found it harder and harder to adapt themselves to the complex condition which they met; all were inconvenienced and not a few were disheartened. To do away with this state of things, a few members of the Faculty took the matter into hand and put their sympathy into definite form. They bethought themselves of what new students wanted to know, they gathered the needed information, and secured means for easily communicating...
Harvard's fielding was very poor, but the difference in the diamond at Williamstown from that on Jarvis Field bothered the men a good deal. It is impossible to adapt the playing at once from a smooth ground to a grass surface...
...this the important thing in a business man? In business today everything goes with a rush and the man who cannot adapt himself, at a minute's notice to any combination of circumstances falls out of the race. If a man knows men, knows their motives and their actions; if he is a master of himself and of circumstances; if his mind leaps quickly and surely to conclusions, he is fitted for business. If a man does not get this adaptability from the college he alone is at fault. The man who is spoiled by his college course would probably...
Charles S. Reinhart is the best all round illustrator that we have ever had in this country. He is always ready to adapt himself to circumstances and he is always good humored. He has no prejudices but is thoroughly cosmopolitan. For this reason his pictures are always true to life. We have in his work no slips like that Doret made when in a painting he filled the streets of London with Frenchmen. Reinhart seems always to catch the characteristic feature of his subject and he invariably makes it very easy to recognize just what he means...
...absolutely no time for considering the length of a man's service of the nine, (except as that may have shown his fitness) or his class, or his society connections or anything of the sort; fitness and individual character and the ability to see clearly the conditions and to adapt himself to them, these and these only should have any weight. And fitness in this case means a clear head, a steady purpose and the quality of natural leadership. It does not imply the greatest actual ability as a baseball player any more than generalship in an army implies...