Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarter with fine homes of practically U. S. conveniences and comforts. Mexicans of the wealthy and of the ruling classes live in solidly built, fortress-like homes, of two stories for the most part. Until one has finally been admitted to the intimacies of such a home, one is apt to consider its life as morose, monotonous. But later one learns of the gayety and kindliness and sanity that pass through the richly furnished rooms...
...knowledge of the subject independent of regular classroom work. The marked increase in reading is prompted by the ever-present professor. In all probability, the greater circulation of books is accompanied by a less thorough perusal. The undergraduate animal, be he tiger or bulldog, Indian or Puritan, is not apt to spend much time on indefinite assignments...
Beyond question, the gradual extinction of what was once a flourishing department is explicable in terms of the modern attitude toward old-fashioned public speaking with its strong savor of Websterian oratory. English 10 was deeply imbued with this tradition. To day the too polished speaker is more apt to be distrusted than admired; the prevailing theory, unfortunate as it often is in its results, is that if a man be sufficiently full of his subject, the words will come. To betray attention to old time rules of inflection and gesture, imperfectly mastered, is far more disastrous to the modern...
...hard and fast insistence on the ultiquity of these motives calls for a reaction. Professor Holcombe's "Political Parties of Today", for example, discards, in its very logical history of Democratic and Republican politics, all forces less constant than King Cotton and King Corn. Excellent extremes like this are apt to annoy some humanist...
...carefully worded pages of the Bible, but this time he is able to give it a fair hearing. College, if it teaches anything, teaches a young man to judge of things for himself. If then he finds gold in these pages, where all seemed dross before, he is very apt to appreciate and remember. There are certain qualities in its simple beautiful style and plain old English which are very hard to duplicate...