Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tends to play too far from centre. Burnett is working well into right guard though he plays high on charging his man. Of the backs, Kendall still tackles too high; in fact, this is a weakness of the whole team. Putnam is active on the defense but he is apt to be drawn into the play too quickly. Stillman has the same fault of burying himself in the play and losing sight of the man with the ball...
...giving to others. It is this feeling that has caused the Student Volunteer movement; and those who have taken part in the work find that here too they receive while they are giving. One danger there is, that must be always avoided. In their enthusiasm students are apt to devote more time than they can afford to such matters, and by so doing, to defeat their own objects...
Whitwell, number 6, is very long, and is apt to lose control in getting to the full reach, thereby failing sometimes to get a good grip of the water...
...editorials are extremely apt, and the second one in particular deals humorously and in a new way with old college complaints. Of the stories, "Hawkins of Cold Cape," by Carrol More, is the most entertaining. It is funny from beginning to end, and although absurd on its face never seems absolutely improbable. "The Story of Nellie and Jack," by E. A. Wye '01, is well told, though the curious dialect is rather trying on the reader. Dialect stories have to be very good indeed to make up for the difficulty of struggling through the sentences. "In at the Death...
...over-prominence in college life, are certainly for many Freshmen a most effective bridge over the morally perilous first months. They supply a keen motive for effort, persistence and self-restraint. Study, unfortunately, does not in most cases so rouse the ambition and sense of responsibility. The reward is apt to seem too remote. The student has the happy feeling that college of itself, without effort, will make a man distinguished. The saving power of effort, therefore, is not experienced and character is left to take its chances...