Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Spectators should remember that clapping a man when he goes to the bat does not encourage him. If a man is nervous it is apt to rattle...
...Rather hard for 7 to swing well with stroke as his build is so different. Is apt to slump and row out at the finish...
...known as Mr. Howard. The lecture will, without doubt, well repay all who attend. This lecture is to be the first in a series given under the auspices of the Shakspere Club, which has as its object the furtherance of elocution and dramatic expression. The initial lecture is peculiarly apt, for while few Harvard students, perhaps, will actually grace the boards, it is not by any means improbable that many students will write for the stage. There is a large field open in the direction of dramatic writing, and solid satisfactory remuneration awaits success in this field. In these days...
...Henry Cabot Lodge delivered the sixth and last one of the series of lectures on the professions. His subject was the "Uses and Responsibilities of Leisure." He spoke for forty minutes in a direct and agreeable way. His apt illustrations and stories proved very entertaining to the audience...
...desperately unpopular cause of Abolition; was a finished scholar, a delightful man, and a thorough patriot. How many men of business have left a better record? Yet the old Puritan prejudice had as most Puritan notions had, a principle beneath that is fundamentally right. Leisure, unemployed, is apt, as Dr. Watts has kindly pointed out to us, to be a source of harm...