Word: apt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whole, the University team has improved in standing up at the bat, but the men are apt to hit at bad balls, and easily get discouraged. The bunting is still weak, and the base-running lacks head work; while the fielding, although fast is at times unsteady...
...slow in shooting. Both Souther and Foster have a tendency to keep too far away from the puck, and Foster is also uncertain in his shooting. McCloud's worst fault is that of loosing his head at critical moments. Both Carr and Clothier in the back field are apt to leave their positions, and thus give an opening to the opposing forwards, Litchfield, at goal, plays fairly steadily, and if properly supported, would develop into a consistent player...
From the point of view of its general effect on the University the argument is more important and involved. On the one hand it is urged that athletics are an undergraduate's recreation and that the main interest and support is among the undergraduates. Moreover, that it is apt to be among the graduate students that the doubtful cases arise. But, on the other hand, our teams are after all University teams, the presence of older men adds an element of balance--and the interest felt by the schools represented helps knit our loose-jointed system into a whole...
...could not move. They know when that individual criminal is arrested and brought to justice; on the other hand, the people of the country hear of an act of violence; they may not know that the perpetrator is at once arrested, and in their ignorance of exact conditions are apt to favor action uncalled for by the particular situation. The complex local conditions of every section raise an insuperable objection to federal interference in local affairs. As long as the United States interfered during the Reconstruction Period in the South it was impossible to rebuild the South...
...cover and centre-page drawings are what one is apt to look at first in the Lampoon, and instinctively to hold as the criterion of merit in judging the number as a whole. In the Yale game issue the cover drawing is a good illustration of a clever and pertinent idea, while the centre page drawing, though in part rather careless and crude in technique, is effective as a whole and symbolizes well what everyone is thinking today--"Who will win?" The first editorial is unusually good, and the second, more serious in tone than the ordinary Lampoon editorial...