Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be difficult, if not impossible, for any Government Bureau to serve the sick and disabled ex-soldiers as well as the Red Cross organization can. Customary Government action is slower and less elastic than that of the Red Cross, and is more apt to be pauperizing in its tendency. The Red Cross methods are more sympathetic, confidential, and humane...
Censorship may be for a while a power for good, but it is fully as apt eventually to become a power for evil, so far as the future of the American drama is concerned. We have here now a new school of playwrights turning out work of a distinctive type which bids fair to increase in depth and vigour; should a board of censors whatever its motives, be turned loose in this field, who can foretell the result? It has been shown here in our own Workshop that it takes many years to train an audience to be intelligently critical...
...word of caution! Professionalism menaces even the horse-shoe pitcher. There are two leagues: The National Horse-Shoe Pitchers' Association and the American Horse-Shoe Pitchers' Association and professional coaches are already in the field. The tournaments are apt to draw large crowds, and in Florida the intense excitement of the game was fatal to one of the spectators. It looks as if football, outstripped in the race for the favor of the fickle public, were doomed to an early demise. But alas! It also looks as if the colleges were simply going to exchange one unruly child for another...
Some of the best prose in the number is contained in the book reviews. All three are robustly and epigrammatically written, and reveal, with many an apt turn of phrase, high powers of impressionistic criticism. The caricature of Max Beerbohm is as successful as many of his own caricatures. The review of "Cytherea" is perhaps too conscious in its "joyous paganism" (the same may be said of the book, I understand), but the concluding remarks on the novel are sound, and the whole is well expressed...
...enterprise, to one field of study, to one aim in life--to make a living. Wherein is there any joy in such a procedure? Modern students are extremely indifferent to the things about which the world about them is concerned. Their ideas regarding life's problems are very apt to be frivolous ones, based on their beliefs that the men who are running the world today are not as capable of their positions as they might be. Aren't such ideas apt to be mistaken? There are students who rebel at certain literary courses which occur in the engineering curriculum...