Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Paul's Society has not been in as flourishing a condition of late as it should be and last night Mr. William C. Sturgis, '84, of the Saint Andrew's Brotherhood, spoke some timely words on the subject of reorganization. He said that men are apt to get their sympathies greatly narrowed under the pressure of their work here without stopping to think that they have duties to their fellow-collegians. The Saint Paul's Society might afford an admirable means of fulfilling these duties if the members would only realize it. Mr. Sturgis then suggested that the society...
...Hand, 157, is a new man and, for a new man, is rowing very well. He hunches his shoulders at finish, however, hurries his recover, and as a result does not gather himself at full reach. He catches well but is apt to kick his slide...
...Paul's Society on "Some of the Significations of Lent." He said that the reason that a special season like this is set aside especially for worship is not because at other times there is to be no communion with God, but because during the secular life, worship is apt to become too much subordinated. At the same time it is with Lent as with a college course. A may come to college and think when he has finished his four years that his education is complete, but if this is so he had better never have come to college...
...Glidden 167. Rows pretty well. Apt to draw his arms in too fast and is slow in starting his body forward...
...Edward Abbott, D. D., rector of Saint James' Church, North Cambridge, addressed the Saint Paul's Society last evening. He said that people never seem to realize how easily they might obtain good advice when they have knotty questions to decide in business life or in study. They are apt, if the difficulty is very great, either to give it up entirely or else to make a guess at the solution and usually guess wrongly. People don't as a rule understand that there is One above earthly perplexities who is, nevertheless, able to end perplexity as no one else...