Word: apt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...peculiarly unfortunate. Those reasons are evidently of such a nature that the club is unwilling to make them public, preferring rather to suffer under an unjust charge of race prejudice. This state of affairs must, of course, be a severe strain upon the patience of the club, and is apt to end in the indignation of some one of the members getting the better of him, and a revelation following of the personal objections which caused the black-balling of Messrs. Greener and Terrell. In the mean time the friends of Mr. Terrll are not acting as if they dreaded...
...chilled, the circulation of the blood becomes irregular, and the heart is liable to ge affected. The captains, however, can avoid this danger by compelling their men to wear more clothing, especially around the neck, arms and legs. 2d. Instead of an increase in breathing power, the lungs are apt to be temporarily, if not permanently injured. Running, compels not only faster, but also deeper breathing; the inhaled air finds its way to the innermost and extremely delicate tissues of the lungs. These tissues, not used during the ordinary process of breathing, are lunfit for contact with very coldlair...
...that the gloomy clouds of the examination period darken our days. We are all prone to be in a rather irritable frame of mind, and are apt to become excited over trifles which pass unheeded in happier times. This state of feeling has been shown in past years by incessant complaints of the thought-lessness of those musically-inclined students who persist in keeping up a vigorous course of piano or violin practice during examination time, greatly to the annoyance and indignation of their temporarily studious neighbors. But this year there seems to be a lull in this species...
...interest the great majority of students. This is a subject which deserves far more attention than is generally given it. It is by listening to these readings that a man can come to feel that there are other interesting studies than those which he pursues. We are too apt to become wrapped up in our own course of study and thus be led to give little or no attention to the studies of others. One evening or two a week could not be better spent than in listening to these various readings and lectures offered us. We would thus come...
There is undoubtedly something repugnant in a blue book, the mere sight of one is apt to excite our animosities; they have an effect upon us something akin to that produced by a Yale-Harvard foot ball match-they dampen our ardor. However, like many another thing here at Harvard, they are a necessity, and we have no choice but to support the book stores at this period of the year by a liberal patronage in blue books. Someone is made happy, at any rate. Let us not be so selfish as to want to take away this pleasure...