Word: apt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ellsworth. He is slow at the beginning of the recover, does not get his body away before his slide, reaches around with his outside shoulder, and is apt to be behind...
...Pond, 173 lbs., does not swing straight, and is loose in all his motions; is apt to get behind the rest of the crew...
...Mills, 176 lbs., is apt to be slow and fails to get down to the water on the catch, is liable to be behind, and rushes slide...
...second gift is the system of education for the purpose of acquiring not mere knowledge, but the power to use our faculties to the utmost. It is in just this point that a college education is apt to be wanting, and it is for just this point that Harvard has made a stand. At Harvard first of all colleges was abandoned the time-honored custom of requiring certain passages from the classics for admission. Now the stress is laid mostly on the ability to translate at sight. This was a substitution of a test of power for a test...
...principal interest to us. Howell was president of the '92 freshman glee club and sang for a time on the University glee club. He was a member of the Institute of 1770. It is difficult to sum up the qualities of a man familiarity with whom is apt to blind the perception of those traits which would be apparent to a stranger. All those who knew Howell slightly will remember him first, probably, for his courteous manner and kind-hearted disposition. To those, and there are many, who knew him intimately there will be an ever growing realization...