Word: apt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...moderate. We must remember, however, that a great many of the Harvard men who make up the total number of registered students are self-supporting, in whole or in part. Most of these, certainly, do not spend ten to twelve dollars per week for board alone. Nor are they apt to spend appreciably, much less liberally, for the luxuries concerning which the discussion has centered. There is the further fact that many of them do not smoke ten-cent cigars at all and a large proportion of them are total abstainers. That such liberal allowance should be made for items...
...contests in the Arena. As a result, undergraduates who wish to see the games are forced to pay a high price for seats which do not necessarily enable them to sit together, and for this reason the attendance at the games, and consequently the support given the team, is apt to suffer. The interest shown in the work of the hockey team by the men in College is of so enthusiastic an order that an attempt should be made to bring the cost of seeing the games within the range of every student, as well as to concentrate...
...recent editorial in the Daily Princetonian concerning the work of the Undergraduate Schools Committee at Princeton calls attention to the need of organizing this sort of work at Harvard. The school and territorial clubs are all too apt to languish through lack of purposeful activity until their finances become merely entertainment funds. If these clubs are to be anything but social organizations, they must realize that their chief duty is to make and keep their section or school well acquainted with Harvard. What is being done along this line at Princeton is presented in the following excerpt from the Princetonian...
...College journals better writing and better judgment than are shown in the first two editorials in the current number. The sound doctrine set forth in the article concerning Freshmen is further insisted on by Mr. D. E. Dunbar in "The Making of a Standard." Both Faculty and students are apt to take it for granted that the standard of scholarship in the College can be raised only by the action of instructors; we are indebted to Mr. Dunbar for his vigorous suggestions as to how the undergraduates might support the office to the advantage of the intellectual tone...
...high jump Moffat should meet in the finals Burdick of Pennsylvania, Sargent of Michigan, Dalrymple of Technology, and Enright of Dartmouth. Cable should qualify in the broad jump along with Mercer of Pennsylvania, Babcock of Columbia, and Waring and Cohn of Michigan. In the pole-vault Jones is not apt to qualify...