Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family are aghast in the grand manner, and the scenes are laid in such living-quarters as a villa in Fiesole, morning room in Mr. Farquhar's house, Park Avenue; the Duchess de Bercy's house, Avenue de Bois de Boulogne. All this is so fearful that one is apt to forget that an exceedingly fine company of actors is displaying a theatrically adroit and often moving play...
...there have been annoying discourtesies and a lack of efficiency on the part of the younger, less responsible members of the Library staff, the same criticism cannot be applied to Widener's workers as a whole. In the Library, like in a good many other places, a customer is apt to receive an ascending amount of attention and interest the higher he seeks it, and Mr. Lane's letter is but another proof that those in charge of Widener are willing to go out of their way in helping the members of the University...
...former methods of instruction. The faults that will be shown by experience to come through the use of the reading period will quite possibly be those of a too elaborate effort on the part of instructors to make sure that the student is kept busy. The reading assignments are apt to be made merely an extension of course control, and to be made too heavy to permit the honest performance of the required task. Two weeks and a half might profitably be spent in milling over the courses, in pulling them together, in completing the terminal essays--to say nothing...
...football is now played, with the tremendous interest that it evokes among graduates, friends, and other supporters; with newspapers devoting expert analysts, feature writers, and photographers; with the coaching staff and retainers of each side numbering scores of men, any movement, any word uttered, any picture published, is apt to result in a violation of the spirit at least of the agreement. Under the circumstances, a football coach cannot look at a newspaper, he cannot talk to friends, he cannot read his mail, for fear of finding out something about the opposing team. The mere presence of a Harvard...
...Dwyer gained admittance to Fordham University in New York this autumn, he was a problem that deans of practically every U. S. college have encountered. Cripples are usually excellent students. Their will to learn and their abstinence from extra-curriculum work tends to make them so. Yet they are apt to be painful to physically normal undergraduates. Father Charles J. Deane, dean at Fordham, had urged against Student Dwyer's enrollment...