Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Complications are apt to arise if the men who have entered for the third Winter Meeting do not pay careful attention to the instructions issued this morning It may be well to emphasize the announcement that those who were examined for the second meeting are required to be examined again for Saturday's performances. Also no one will, as before, be allowed to take this examination on Saturday. All contestants must see Dr. Sargent either to-day or to-morrow...
...Grays last night. He spoke of the purposes and uses of Lent, He said: Whenever we draw near the end of a piece of work that we have laid out before us, it is good plan to pause and look back on what we have done. We are apt to get confused as we proceed in something that at the outset looked simple enough, and sometimes we even forget our original purpose. In Lent most of us try a little more earnestly to improve ourselves, for example we try to break loose from some bad habit or to help others...
...committee of five, of which he shall be chairman, to manage the affair and see that it is successfully pushed through. It is not for Ninety-four to be the first to allow the custom to fall into disuse. And yet the long delay in starting the arrangements is apt to prove dangerous to the continuance of the custom. It was for just these reasons that the dinners of the senior class gradually dropped out from the list of college events. The junior dinner is now the only remaining occasion on which the class in all the four years...
...Fearing meets his oar at finish; apt to rush at the last part of the slide on the recover...
...Eddy lacks life and snap; does not straighten his arms at the shoot; apt to drop over at the full reach; does not use outside hand in feathering...