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Word: aptness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cooke all over the field, opening every inning, with the exception of of the first and eighth which were on base on balls, with a two or three base hit. Mason and Hallowell led in the batting. The base running in several instances was bad, as is only too apt to be the case. Once Hallowell made an error in trying to reach third by forcing a throw to second, and was put out. Abbott, also, through bad coaching was thrown out at home for trying too much on his three bagger. Once Sullivan was not on second when badly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball. | 6/16/1893 | See Source »

Davis, 4, clips, is apt to be late, and has no control over himself at full reach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Varsity Crew. | 6/6/1893 | See Source »

...from the bank. They also row down the basin, always with a slow stroke, never quicker than thirty to the minute. The strokes are long and slow, excellent for a four mile race, but scarcely with enough life and snap for a shorter one. The men are apt to hang on the full reach and don't succede in keeping the boat on even keel. However, the crew is an average freshman one, and with the month of work they have yet before the race at New London, they should make a great deal of improvement, and row well against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Crew Notes. | 6/2/1893 | See Source »

...practice which a man's individual instincts as well as his respect for the reputation of Harvard ought to make him condemn. The most important games of the season are still to come and they are the very occasions when this sort of a spirit is apt to crop out, if at all, College sentiment should revolt against this abuse in every possible way. If the few will disregard all sense of the fitness of things let the university as a whole look to her past reputation and justify itself in the eyes of the public by making every endeavor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1893 | See Source »

...simple duty, and learn to be expansive, to help the men less favored than himself, to learn that it is, in reality. more blessed to give than to receive. It is at a university that this lesson is hardest to learn; for the life though grand, is apt to be selfish. A man is with drawn from the affairs of the world and shut up with his books and his amusements, so that he needs to be cautions lest he shall be narrowed rather than broadened by his course. He must first of all be sure that no religious convictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Drummond's Talk. | 4/21/1893 | See Source »

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