Word: apt
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Another principle underlying the free elective system is that we can study best those courses which interest us most. But we must not forget the difference between the undergraduate, who is apt to be indifferent to the good his studies may do him, and the mature man, who is actuated solely by a desire of self-improvement. To conclude, the free elective system assumes the evident fallacy that the student's aim is earnest and his judgment nature, and it fails to emphasize the development of character and the broadening of intellect...
...apt, said Dr. Sandys, to exaggerate the ignorance of the Middle Ages, and to forget that the revival of learning in Italy was brought about by a long succession of causes. The link between mediaeval and modern literature is Petrarch. Descended from Florentine ancestry, he was born in 1304. He spent his youth in exile, and was educated at the University of Bologna. His first great achievement was the discovery of Cicero's "Pro Archia" in 1333. He spent a quiet life at Vaucluse and Arqua, where he died in 1374. Petrarch saturated his life with a careful study...
...their class "lives" in expectation of having more statistics to put in later in the year, as these can always be added by communicating with the Secretary. Experience in the past has proved that if the information requested is not sent in early in the winter it is apt to be overlooked and never attended...
...there is apt to be so much misunderstanding about Commencement tickets, a statement should be made each year explaining the basis on which distribution is made...
...shape and wears off, a heavy, durable buckram binding will be used. The paper is more flexible, of a much better quality and better suited to half-tone engraving than heretofore. In previous yeas the cuts have been made by the gelatine process, with which weather conditions are apt seriously to interfere. This year, however, all the engraving work is of the very best half-tone quality; the improvement can easily be seen by comparing the cuts in the old album with those in the "dummy" both of which are at Notman...