Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contemporary thinks, and in our opinion, thinks rightly that this class enthusiasm aids largely in bringing about the best results. But the trouble is that the reaction against the modern spirit is apt to carry college students back again to the old days of hazing. We strongly favor class enthusiasm, but if class enthusiasm is to retard the spirit which is now actuating the students of most colleges in their efforts to improve and elevate college customs, we say preserve us from class enthusiasm...
Baker has played a beautiful game at short and has made many brilliant stops and throws. He is too apt to throw wild on recovering from a difficult ball or a slight fumble and has sometimes showed a lack of care; with these exceptions he has played short for all it is worth. His batting has been strong and sure and his base-running good...
Third - We believe that the present system leads, in many instances, to superficial work, or at least to work done mainly with a view to class-room recitation. A student spurred by the desire to gain high marks is apt to do merely the work which she feels will conduce to this end. Her college course thus signally fails to develop those scholarly habits of thought and study which it is the aim of the higher education to establish...
...aims less at mere mental drill, it is difficult to see what objection can be urged to their use, and why their use does not result, on the whole, in a saving of time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course is very apt to regard with horror any toleration of the use of the ubiquitous "trot," and to set down such a liberty as a moral sin. What seems the most absurd manifestation of this sort of prejudice is the custom in vogue among the professors of Lehigh University, where the text books...
...play a very fine game, although they sometimes play too far from the goal. Of the fielders, Machado plays excellently; he catches and throws well, and is clever at getting the ball from a crowd. Williams covers and body-checks well, but holds the ball too long, and is apt to miss good chances for passing. Goodale generally plays well, though he should be more careful in body checking and picking the ball up. If Nichols threw better he would be a remarkably fine player. Roundy is apt to use one hand and is a careless thrower. Marquand is uneven...