Word: apt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Jones and Putnam of Cornell will probably take again the first two places in the half-mile. Bodley of Pennsylvania, Dolan of Dartmouth, and Hayes of Princeton are apt to shut out the Harvard runners. Jones of Cornell will also run the mile and should have little difficulty in winning it. Taber of Brown, and Maderia of Pennsylvania will fight it out for the other places...
...grandfather of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell--is a charming contribution, and one which will be read with great respect and with smiles by all who turn its pages. Freshmen are not so very different nowadays from what they were in 1811, even if fathers are less apt in these days to quote Cicero and Fenelon...
...Princeton) go through their first year utterly ingnorant of what Appleton Chapel has to offer. Because Appleton represents in their minds the College form of the preparatory school compulsory morning chapel, they avoid it as an irksome task no longer required by the curriculum. The same idea is apt to remain fixed in the Sophomore mind. Perhaps, as a Junior, the individual may be compelled to attend an 8.15 o'clock training table. In order not to seem odd, he may some day go to Chapel with the rest of the team or crew. Gradually it becomes a custom...
Governor Woodrow Wilson's address of last Saturday brings out many points of very special interest in these days of strenuous and earnest social reform movement. There is a common error nowadays into which the over-zealous reformer is very apt to fall, namely that of judging the value of a principle or an action solely by its indirect consequences. Thus, in private property rights, the socialist sees an evil, not because the holding of private property is in itself a wrong, but because evil has resulted from the abuse of this right. In like manner he declares the present...
...undergraduate circles everywhere there is apt to be a large amount of thoughtless denunciation of the rival college, for no other reason than that it is the rival college. Graduates are the men who seem most appreciative of the good qualities of the side to which they do not belong; they usually take the trouble to find out what the rival's claims to greatness are. Undergraduates are far too apt--especially during the heat of an athletic season--to attribute anything but virtue to the members of the sister institution...