Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...told him that I was much obliged, but that, as he knew, I was not very apt to take advice. You must mark, though, that I couched this in far gentler terms than the words I here put down...
There is a pause before the catch, commencing with No. 6. In trying to get the hard catch, the crew, as was pointed out in the last Crimson, are apt to expend all their strength in banging the water at the beginning of the stroke, and then make a weak and slovenly finish. The firm grip on the water, instantly got on the full reach, should be followed clear through by a good, vigorous, even stroke. The hardest part of this stroke, unless the man makes a jerk in the middle, must be at the beginning, because there the greatest...
...while the proposition that a free access to books stimulates reading is proved by the fact that more books have been taken from the shelves containing the new books exposed for examination than from any other collection of the same size in the hall. Students would be no more apt to take books from the alcoves without getting them charged than from the reference and the new-book shelves. We would suggest that certain alcoves containing books that can be replaced easily be thrown open to the students, with the understanding that the continuance or discontinuance of the system will...
...usage than either of the first two classes, though, be it confessed, the Yankee occasionally falls into an opposite error of making the a too broad, the o too confined, and the r utterly inaudible. In his mouth won't, the contraction for will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke...
...society, and remember before entering a drawing-room always to chew cloves or something of a similar nature. Be particular in little things; do not throw off your collar because you are warm, nor take off your collar because it has begun to melt. Such small points are too apt to be laughed at at Neophogen as over-refinements. Be careful, yet simple in your dress. A brass collar-button is better than a scarlet necktie. Do not lounge with the men at one end of the room, and never fail to go and talk with the girls when...