Word: apt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ordinary ones, by cultivating and fostering neglectful habits of work. To be sure there are certain advanced courses which a man can take if he pass off his freshman work in them, but these are not always taken. Bad habits of study formed in freshman year are very apt to extend all through the college, and anything which cultivates this tendency is not in any sense an advantage to the student. But more than this is the loss of comparatively a whole year and one too of the most importance in a man's life. Of course it must...
...October, the membership will be not only more certain and calculable, but probably larger. The inducement to join the society is strongest at the beginning of the academic year, since a large number of purchases are made at that time. In February, under the existing system, men are apt not to join, because there is no immediate prospect of decided benefit from their membership. This probably accounts for the fact that between February and July of the present year only 390 members joined the society. In October of the present year, about two hundred persons paid a full year...
...doubt that investigation will do good to almost anything, we fear that any investigation of such a subject as secret societies will result in nothing but angry defiance on the part of the students who naturally feet that their privileges are being violated. Undergraduates are not apt to accept with any degree of grace, dictation from their alumni, believing as they do that they themselves are reasonable beings and can institute reforms if reforms be needed. The undergraduates of Harvard have already had a taste of indiscreet graduate interference in the matter of the disputed Colombia race and the dose...
...erroneous one. It is not at all strange that in practice against an inferior team, individuality is more strongly apparent in the superior team, than when it is compelled to play as a unit so as to win. Thus it is that individual players on our team are too apt to disregard the other members of the eleven in their practice, and thus in an important game where combined strength would succeed, it cannot be put forward on account of lack of practice. The foot-ball team show even now the effects of the careful practice of the past month...
...following clipping, taken from the editorial columns of the Detroit Evening Journal can not fail to be of interest as an apt illustration of the insane ideas held by many on the subject of college athletics. The elegant language and rational sentiments contained in this extract are particularly noticeable, and cause the feeling of entertainment which arises at first sight, to deepen into the most heart-felt pity for the unfortunate perpetrators...