Word: apt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...income from commissions, which average about two per cent. would reach $1,000, giving a total income of nearly $2,500, or more than enough to enable the society to be successful. The greatest danger to which the Harvard society is exposed is internal dissension. Students are too apt to follow blindly the lead of a few men. It was this tendency which came so near ruining Memorial Hall last spring, and it was the same influence that suddenly put the hall on a firm footing again. The fiscal year of the society ends on the third Wednesday of February...
...first eight are now rowing in the following order: Bow, Smith; 2, Lincoln; 3, Foote; 4 Delafield; 5, Ayer; 6, Borland (capt.); 7, Barnes; stroke. Harris. Stroke has an easy, regular motion, but might get a longer reach with advantage. Seven's time is rather poor and he is apt to swing back rather too far. Four and five bend their arms too soon and shoot their hands up instead of straight out, as they ought. Three is very apt to get out of time, but his form is good generally. Two does not keep control of his neck...
...quite exciting. But as our team is accustomed to play an open formation game they could quickly transfer the rushing across the field; a performance which made it rather embarrassing to the Canadian men, who were massed in another part of the field. Under their rules the game is apt to be very rough and dangerous, but at the same time not particularly lively or exciting; so, on the whole, the sentiment seems to be decidedly in favor of the American college game even among men who have played under each set of rules. The McGill men were surprised...
...shade, my high-water mark. I happened to meet a neighbor ; so we mopped our brows at each other ; he told me he had just cleared 100 deg., and I went home a beaten man. I might suspect his thermometer (as indeed I did, for we Harvard men are apt to think ill of any graduation but our own,) but it was a poor consolation." - [J. R. Lowell...
...Boston: A. Williams & Co., Old Corner Bookstore." "Sly Ballades in Harvard China" is a volume belonging to the school of Harvard writers which has produced "The Little Tin Gods on Wheels" and "Rollo's Tour to Cambridge." Nevertheless, these verses have a character of their own; their humor is aptly termed "sly." The subjects chosen are always unpretending, the metres used are appropriate and handled with a pleasant facility, and the execution of nearly every piece is felicitous and successful. The book throughout is pervaded with the genuine college spirit of our day in treating of all social subjects...