Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crew baseball, and track respectively, all declared themselves in favor of Junior managerships. Bickford is the only one of the three in favor of Sophomore competitions. "In track", he said, "there is no practical way of getting around the Sophomore competition. A man appointed his Freshman year is very apt to go on pro some time before his Junior year, in which case there is no one with adequate experience to replace...
...able to give them all his attention. If the sport were made intercollegiate he would have to concentrate in developing just a few boxers to form the team, and those who were not good enough for the team would receive less attention. The crowd at a fight is apt to be obnoxious, yelling not so much for the college as for a good scrap. Newspaper accounts of intercollegiate boxing are exactly like the write-ups of professional pugilistic combats. Each bloody detail is vividly described and emphasis is laid on all the more unpleasant parts of the bout. In this...
...Canterbury comprises 59 per cent of water,"--a statement of fact which gives an idea of the humorous touch and the lively style that make the reading of Sir Arthur Shipley's new elementary biology a stimulating exercise. He calls his little book "Life," prefaces his chapters with apt quotations from the poets, and explains with an unusual combination of scientific accuracy and literary flavor all about protoplasm, cells, feeding, the soil and the sap, food, digestion, respiration, movement, and reproduction, in plants and animals...
...this connection an irate alumnus who has cloaked his identity by calling himself "A Follower of Harvard Athletics for Twenty Years" has made various particularly apt comments in a letter to the CRIMSON...
...Story. Those extraordinary young men, who throughout the last century devoted themselves to creating what is now known as the British Commonwealth of Nations, were apt to start almost anyhow and end almost everywhere. Sir Harry Johnston began life as a student of painting and zoology in London; he is ending it by writing vigorous novels in which there appear imaginary descendants of Dickens' characters; and he spent the intervening time in the British consular service...