Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following are a few individual faults: Stroke. Should be careful not to settle at the end of the stroke, as this combined with a rather perceptible hang makes it difficult for him to come right forward. Apt to hunch up his shoulders, especially the left, and fails to keep a good hold with his outside hand...
...Rows too jerkily; - should try to make his work smoother. Fails to use his stretcher and is slow in coming back. When he does come back, is apt to slump. Should remember to keep his chest well...
Last evening Mr. Hochdoerffer began his series with a very interesting translation from Buerger. This course, like most of the other courses of readings, is too apt to be unappreciated. The hour selected for the readings is a convenient one for most of us, and we fail to attend them more from carelessness than want of time. If we fully appreciated the benefit and pleasure we should derive by devoting one or two hours a week to the readings the faculty have provided for us, the attendance at them all would undoubtedly be greatly increase...
There are three dangers into which young students of archaeology are apt to fall and they consist in (1) a misconception of what constitutes thoroughness of research; (2) the detrimental predominance of the collector's frame of mind, and lastly the ill-judged and premarure introduction of allied studies into archaeology. People think it necessary to go back into the prehistoric development of Greek social life and art when they begin to teach archaeology. This would be more logical if the science were a more firmly established one. As it is, the true method of research seems...
...young reprobates, who rather dislike their escapades to remain unknown. As a class, these students are rich, and may be said, I believe, to come of families not yet used enough to fortune to known quite what to do with it. Generally they are good company, and they are apt to belong to the fashionable societies...