Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result is an awkward hesitancy on both sides which is apt soon to be turned into a careless disregard. It is not right that such men as President Eliot, Professors Norton, Child, Goodwin, Lane and Whitney, and the distinguished preachers to the University should pass about among Harvard men with only an occasional recognition. Such men deserve to receive every mark of respect...
...uses his head and rushes well. He is never hurt and always begins to play best toward the end of the game, when his opponents are getting tired. He is still a little light for rush line halfback when the other side has the ball , but he is very apt to drop on the ball when it is dropped, and to get well into the plays...
Ames has sprung his collar bone and has been laid off since Thursday. He was a steady, hard player, not sure on the defense, and occasionally allows the interference to get by him, but always rushes well and keeps his head on the game. He is apt to get blocked...
...feeling of mingled indignation and despair. We know that it is no easy matter for the University authorities to remedy the evil; that improvements cost money; that the University is cramped for funds which may be applied to such purposes; and finally, that the best of ventilating appliances is apt to prove unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, on the principle that the one who never murmers when he is dissatisfied is not likely to have his condition bettered, we make this protest...
...study there are generally concerned with obtaining special culture in some branch of learning for its own sake, or else are concerned with making themselves fitted to teach. The number of men who can afford the money and time for the first of these objects is apt to be cut down seriously by a general financial depression, and men of the second class are, as a rule, limited in means and sensitive to any difficulty in obtaining money. That, under these circumstances, the Graduate School should more than have held its own is conclusive proof of its firm establishment...