Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back too far, and does not row his shoulders back, thus making his finish weak. He swings out from his oar at the finish. No. 5 gets a weak finish and does not sit up well. He lets his outside shoulder swing forward on the full reach, and is apt to be careless in his rowing. He swings out. No. 4 keeps his arms bent even on the full reach. He does not get his shoulders on at all at the beginning of the stroke, letting his slide get ahead of his shoulders. He swings out. No. 3 starts forward...
...them down too hard, and too far, jarring the boat. No. 3 keeps his inside arm bent all the time and his outside arm bent most of the time. He does not swing straight, and wobbles every which way at the finish. His finish is hurried, and he is apt to rush down. He does not keep a firm grip on the oar, and is stiff and awkward. No. 2 is a little stiff. He wants to hold his oar firmly without changing his grasp, nor yet gripping the oar convulsively. He gets a weak finish and rows his elbows...
...believe that, if there is any truth in the charge that a college education does not fit a man for active business life, it is because college men, as students of the past, are too apt to think that the past is everything, and the present nothing, and so find when they have graduated that there are a good many things of practical, every day importance which they have yet to learn. To those of us who intend to make journalism our life work, a course in contemporaneous history would be of inestimable benefit, and as we are neither...
...heart consisted of a "right and left heart" joined into one, by a kind of muscular wall. This wall was sometimes lacking from birth, and owing to the imperfect circulation, people thus afficted turned a bright blue; this disease, cyanosis, is very apt to kill the sufferer in a few years. Having located the heart the lecturer proceeded to show how the blood going from the right auricle was passed into the ventricle and then sent travelling over the body. But ignorance of medical terms prevents our describing it at length...
...society system in itself must needs be a good one, for it brings out and expands that social nature of man which in some cases is too apt to become narrowed into scholastic channels. But like all other institutions which are good in themselves, it is liable to much abuse, and the members of societies ought to be extremely careful that they do not bring upon themselves public displeasure by such abuse. Societies gotten together for the sole purpose of the consumption of the juice of the grape are hurtful in the extreme; although they may give at the time...