Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Take heed to avoid all those Games and Sports that are apt to take up much of thy time, or engage thy affections. He that spends all his life in Sports, is like one who wears nothing but fringes, and eats nothing but sauces." Such was Thomas Fuller's comment, a little less than three hundred years...
...signs point to the Student information Bureau" is an apt expression at present. From morning until night newoomers to Harvard troop into Phillips Brooks House. Of their innumerable questions most concern rooms. The problem of helping them find suitable quarters for the year is a perplexing one for the bureau. Printed lists containing information about more than four hundred rooming houses are provided. But when a man has no place to stay, or to leave his baggage, he is not going to inspect many places; he takes the first available room. While such a course seems natural, it is unwise...
...public affairs, in every day life, in war, and even in sport. There is, in fact, nothing more demoralizing than the habit of palliating things which every one knows ought not to be done, on the ground that every one does them. A man under such conditions is apt to compare himself, not with the best, or even with the average, but with those who do the things he is only too ready to excuse in himself. In fact he is prone to believe that the rivals by whom he is measuring himself are a little worse than they really...
...Colgate at 4 o'clock this afternoon on the Divinity courts. The Colgate team comes here with an enviable reputation, due largely to the fact that the four men who compose the team are veterans of last year's undefeated season. In the present University team, however, Colgate is apt to find a stumbling block. As the visiting team has only four members, the contest will be limited to four singles and two doubles instead of the usual number of nine individual matches. This reduction is almost sure to be of an advantage to the Crimson, for the Providence match...
...Burke, should clean up here. The mile run, however, will be held first and it depends on the results whether Burke will try the half. If he does not and if Colt, after running the quarter, finds the pace too fast for him, either Gill or Snow is apt to get third place for the Institute...