Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Stroke is too short; 7 rows well; 6 is too slow; 5 is unsteady and pulls his arms in too hard; 4 rows poorly; 3 needs a little more snap in the general rowing; 2 is too new at the work to criticize; bow is too short and very apt to get the stroke reversed...
...college. This school training shows itself in two ways when the fellows come to college: first, there is a higher quality of athletics in the entering class and the material can be worked into first class shape in a shorter time; and second, more material is apt to present itself to be worked up. If the boys have run while in school, they will be much more apt to come forward as competitors in college, than if their attention had never before been called to running or jumping. While interscholastic athletics should always be kept within proper limits...
...clubs and of their importance which is little considered, even in the college itself. In this aspect the clubs are of value not to all the members, but only to the officers. The benefit referred to is that of the experience derived from managing the organizations. There is rather apt to be in college a feeling that everything is running on of itself, and that the world needs no urging or even directing. Experience in managing any one of the college organizations, be it the Botanical Club or the 'varsity eleven, does a great deal to destroy the illusion that...
...since then the provisions have been added that the courses must be of advanced grade and that they must be passed with high credit. Comparing the present system with that practised not long ago, one is so struck with the improvements made in the requirements that he is rather apt to stop there and not consider whether or no the regulations might be made so as to raise the standard higher. Vastly more significant as the present A. M. degree may be, it is still below what it should be, - a mark of rather extraordinary learning. Today the intelligent student...
...yesterday's Harvard Crimson there appeared an account of what took place at the conference between the representatives of Yale and Harvard, which was held at Springfield on Monday. While the facts as published are true, the article, as a whole, is is apt to be misleading as to the reasonableness of Yale's position, because the reasons given in the meeting for our refusal to agree to Harvard's propositions are not stated. Our proposition was to play three games, one at Cambridge on June 23d, one on New Haven on June 28th, and a third to take place...