Word: apt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...management of the hall was hushed up. We think that if the hall is to be a success next year, there must be a complete change of affairs in its management. There seems to be a general misunderstanding in regard to the complaints about the hall. The authorities are apt to think that because there has been but little complaint lately that the food has been satisfactory; far from it. We have been living on poor food for the last month or more because we were laboring under the delusion that we were getting it cheap, that it only cost...
While we read in the Yale papers such alarming accounts of the Yale crew, our 'Varsity is quietly pursuing its daily task without drawing much attention. Now that athletics seem virtually over for this season, and every one is settling down to work upon his annuals, we are too apt to become forgetful of the men who are to represent the crimson at New London. To visit the boat-house and see the crew push off is truly not very edifying, but every attention shown them is a slight incentive to greater effort. We have not the means of going...
...genteel manners, and the fame of his merry-makings." Dismal are his conclusions drawn from the contrast. The author treats his text under the following sub-heads: 1. "We are an insulated community;" 2. "College is a place where the great purpose of all is apt to be forgotten, and their most valuable possession - i. e., time - to be unappreciated;" 3. "We live here in an undomestic and unsocial state." On the second head he says very finely: "This great purpose is study. Now this is much more difficult, and requires much more moral exertion to devote one's self...
...nine from the college and easily defeating them. A strong nine to practice with is one of the great wants of the college, as in playing with a team who have never played together, and who have been hastily picked from the college, looseness of fielding and batting is apt to result...
...poem. He made many amusing hits at various members of the class. The reading of the poem was interrupted by frequent bursts of laughter and applause. Mr. Mumford then read the ode amidst great enthusiasm. Then the toast-master, Mr. Goodwin, gave toast after toast, all of which received apt replies. The toasts were as follows...