Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considered an open question whether a freshman crew can be got into shape in time by commencing after Christmas. Again, a long course of training tends, especially among new men, to weed out all who do not take interest in their work, and those who are apt to be slack in observing training rules. So it will readily be seen that there are reasons why the freshman crew should train the whole nine months...
...students in regard to appointments ought not to be overlooked. If the students cannot respect an instructor's methods of instruction a large part of the benefit of his teaching, even if there is any real merit in it, is lost. Prescribed courses are at the best apt to be unpopular, and in such cases there is all the more reason for choosing men whose abilities will command the respect of those studying under them, while in the case of elective courses the appointment of an unpopular man inevitably tends to a falling off in the number of those taking...
...rowing with slides, and with a slow stroke - about 27 to the minute. As a general thing the form is excellent for this time of the year. The catch is firm and sharp, and the time in general is good, although there are one or two men who are apt to get tired, and break up the uniformity of the stroke. The slides are held very well, with a few exceptions. Seven's time is often poor, and bow has not yet settled into an easy motion...
...will never do for freshmen oarsmen to put off going into strict training until late in the year; not only do they injure their effectiveness while not in training, but they are also apt not to begin training at all, continuing their irregular habits up to the very day of the race...
...correspondent of the Traveller hits upon a very apt characterization of the Yale man: "Energetic and callous," he calls him, while the Harvard type, he thinks, is "dignified and indifferent...