Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpose of practice in racing is almost wholly done away with. We are aware that the advocates of outside contests urge that the more experience a man has in racing the better he will be fitted for University Crew work, but we think that too much stress is apt to be laid on this point. Apart from its great expense, no Freshman race of the past few years has been so arranged as to draw many spectators. It is natural and fitting that the University Race with Yale should absorb almost all the enthusiasm of the persons...
...first place, particular attention must be paid to the heart: if you have no heart, you cannot possibly become a poet. You must have a poet's heart, too, - different from all other hearts. This is the most difficult part of the subject, and is apt to discourage beginners. Again, it is important to "have loved and lost." This is a comparatively easy matter. Another important point is the use of figurative language. To their reluctance to use more than one or two figures of speech in the same line may be attributed the bare, prosaic nature of the English...
...back stiff, and to get his oar out on full reach; three is inclined to bucket, and does n't swing straight; five fails in reach; six's hands trouble him on the catch; seven does n't shoot quick enough or hold his hands tight; and eight is apt to overreach. All sliver out, bucket badly, and lack rhythm in movement...
Though rather apt to burn...
...have made our plan of study for the remaining years. Of course, in the beginning, we can go to see the different professors that have charge of all the courses which we think of selecting for three years' work, and get a description of them; but the description is apt to be meagre, and our ideas confused from not wishing to bother the professors for a second and third account. Aside from this, it is a great nuisance to go to a professor's house or room a number of times, only to find that he is not at home...