Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems a pity that the whole pleasure and convenience in using the library should still be spoiled by careless management of the heating arrangements. The room should be comfortably warm (and I myself am not a fresh air fiend), but when it gets so hot that one is very apt to fall asleep and dream of purgatory, the study of serious matters is wrongly interfered with. As it is now, one must either be melted or open the windows, getting a bad cold either way; or be the victim of a dull headache, which makes it impossible...
...first crew, as a whole, are working pretty well, but still there is a lack of energy in their rowing. The men are apt not to make the most of the coaching, and do not study their faults enough. As a crew they row short. The recover is hurried and not smooth, and there is not enough life in the catch and heave. Most of the men fail to swing well from their hips, thereby getting a weak stroke and tiring themselves. The usual tendency to contract the stomach, instead of letting it take care of itself and hang naturally...
...Stroke. Apt to hang a little at full reach. Lacks snap...
...Almost every afternoon when the ice is in good condition a crowd of men collect at Fresh Pond to indulge in the exhilarating game of hockey. There are, however, several drawbacks to the enjoyment of these games. The muckers, who always congregate on the pond in large numbers, are apt to interfere, or at least take part, which is almost as bad. Frequently there is no ball at hand, and a wooden block has to be substituted with very unsatisfactory results; and sometimes the ice is suitable for skating several days before it becomes generally known about college. Now, would...
...Death of Shelley," an imaginative account of the way in which the poet met his death, is interesting and well written. Dialogue which is apt to fall into colloquialism is here happily prevented from sinking down...