Word: apt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consisting of members of the faculty whose duty it is to arrange all matters between the two portions of the college community. But, here, everything is so bound about by red tape, and all the minor workings of the governing board are so carefully concealed, that the students are apt to come to the conclusion that the faculty often do things merely for the sake of exercising their authority. Surely some means can be adopted to prevent the growth of such a feeling...
...forming under the charge of Mr. Carey. We feel sure that there are many men with fair or even excellent voices, which they never make use of, merely for the reason that they have never had the opportunity nor taken the trouble to learn to read music. Men are apt to suppose that because they are not exquisite first tenors, or stentorian bassos, they can never gain any pleasure or profit from a knowledge of reading music. But it must be remembered that an indifferent voice with slight cultivation is very much improved, and often developes into a voice...
...study, are prohibited, and that professors and students give heed to the important work for which the college was created. I believe all of these errors in our college management arise from a servile aping of foreign colleges and universities, in which imitation we go (as all imitations are apt to do) far beyond our patterns, and utterly forget that our colleges are neither gymnasiums on the one hand nor universities on the other, but schools sui jeneris, to be adapted to the peculiar conditions of our country and the state of society here...
...year examinations is wasted, for in the two weeks before the beginning of the semi-annuals the crews make but little progress, which is entirely lost in the hurry and excitement of the examinations. Furthermore, too long a period on the rowing weights is apt to grow irksome to men accustomed to rowing on the water. As the river seldom opens before the second week in March, four weeks on the rowing weights would be obtained by commencing immediately after the close of the examinations. This would give all the preparation necessary, as the weights are at best...
Again, a long course of training is apt to overwork class crew men, who can not stand the amount of work assigned to 'Varsity candidates; they become over-trained before the day of the race. This was shown last year, when two of the crews at least were in their best condition three weeks before the race was rowed...