Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Centre College team, it undoubtedly possesses the essential assets of a successful team in that it has an ample amount of very excellent material, an experienced and thoroughly qualified coach, and the advantage of playing together for more than one season. In many respects the game is apt to be a duplicate of last Saturday's contest between Yale and Boston College. In addition to the three essential factors above mentioned, Centre, like Boston College, will present a sufficient number of star players to carry the team at its highest efficiency throughout the game. In the matter of material...
...question is at once naturally asked by a college man looking about for a career as to the opportunity which the Diplomatic Service now affords. There are ordinarily three questions that such a man is apt to ask concerning a possible profession or occupation; first, is it permanent; second, what is the salary; and third, what are the opportunities for promotion...
...knows what he wants and how he means to get it is very apt to succeed; and this is not more true of material aims than of higher ones. The object of true religion in every age and every clime has been to search out those things that are of eternal value. Ascetics and mystics have sometimes carried their exaltation so far as to despise the things by which mankind must live, but the great mass of men have erred in the other direction, by seeking only the things of the present. True religion and spiritual wisdom consist in regarding...
...take up with the leavings at Chicago; to court Johnson's following; to kotow to Gompers or Plumb; to devise planks to win over this form of discontent or that form of disgruntlement. Little but disappointment could result from such a policy. The professional exploiters of "unrest" are very apt to go off and flock by themselves this year, in any event. Whether they go or stay, the Democratic party ought to have the wisdom and firmness not to allow itself to be outdone by the Republicans in interpreting the overmastering desire of the great masses of the people. This...
...generally victorious over their opponents and may be relied upon for steady work. Among the other players on the team, G. Henderson '21 is an extremely long driver, but is lacking in general steadiness. S. A. Duncan '22, F. McN. Bacon '21 and C. W. Baker '22 are also apt to be erratic but are capable of playing good golf...