Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual need for a specifying word. It strengthens the language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like the term "flapper", which originally was an apt expression, it will sink to the level of drab profanity...
...know any student in college who drinks regularly every day or keeps liquor in his room or club except for special occasions. Most buy what they want and consume it on the spot in toto. The result is that when the Harvard student drinks at all he is very apt to be drunk, whether he is an excessive drinker or not. This makes the Harvard situation difficult to classify...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin of March 26, Dr. Raphael Demos stresses the necessity of closer personal contact between professors and students. In doing so, he has voiced the greatest need of every freshman who, coming from a friendly preparatory school, is apt to find Harvard a vast cold place of fact and knowledge, where men are names and professors are far-away statues pedestaled on a lecture-room platform. In the mind of the newcomer there may arise the feeling that there is no one directly interested in him, no one to whom he can tie; he thinks himself a foundling...
...silly antics of mascots," is it not human to have a pet, to cherish some symbolic creature? And does not the horse-play of the rival mascots and their keepers afford the spectators much good, wholesome amusement in the midst of a tense athletic struggle when opposing bloods are apt to become warm? Poor Harvard has not even the memory of a nice, docile, little bear like "Touchdown" whose presence was so helpful in 1915 when the Big Red Team administered a drubbing to the Crimson eleven. For the benefit of the agitators may we suggest for a mascot such...
...Harvard men are perhaps unusually apt to express their views with independence and vigor." It is a tradition that Harvard undergraduates as well as graduates indulge and are encouraged in independent thought and free speech, and that they are less restrained than the men of some other colleges, who are encouraged to live think and speak in the established mould. It has frequently been said that Harvard men can be found on every side of every question. This independence and individuality may be a source of pride, but it does not always contribute to team-play and, when too vociferous...