Word: adaptability
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hard for me to adapt myself comfortably to the fact that the Advocate is no longer an organ of College opinion. Can it be that the internal economy of the University is so perfected that there are no continuing evils to assail, no grievances so lasting as to call for the use of heavier journalistic ordnance than the daily musketry of the CRIMSON? I must look, it is clear, at the Advocate not as a semi-monthly spokesman of College views, but as a carrier of light waves--of verse, stories, and the occasional essay. If the old Advocate...
Several new courses, including elocution, economics, banking, investments, and civics were applied for last year, and these have accordingly been added. An effort is also being made to adapt the courses in advanced arithmetic, physic chemistry and mechanical drawing to the practical needs of the skilled workmen and mechanics who take such courses...
...from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial and experience; and has been subject to constant scrutiny, with a desire to adapt it to existing conditions, nowhere more than in the Athletic Committee itself. That the whole code has not been thoroughly overhauled and simplified during the last two years, as was planned by the Committee in the spring of 1904, is due to causes quite beyond the control of that Committee...
...Noyes will triumphantly breast the temptations of 'recherche' work and the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding poets." Ten minutes of hard meditation on these words will help their writer to avoid "the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding" critics, if one may adapt some of his superabundant metaphor. Moreover, let him forswear for a year the word "muse...
...continue. To quote a New York writer who has lately commented on the matter in the Transcript under the title of "Americas Juventutis:" "The 'Med. Fac.' is seldom funny any more. It is outgrown and nowadays simply stirs up decent lads to do things that they are adapt to be ashamed of at the time and pretty sure to be ashamed of later." The mere fact that as this same writer also states "its membership includes among the graduates a great many solid, sober and responsible citizens," makes the charged criminality of its actions more absurd and allows...