Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country, (though in varying degree) the undergraduates give too little time to matters of immediate importance in the outside world. In the field of industrial relations, this is especially true. The average student, (especially if, he is under no immediate necessity to earn his own livelihood) is only too apt to forget how his fellow citizen lives. If the problems of industrial relations and living conditions were presented to him as part of his regular study, he would consider them more reasonably when he was outside the class-room...
...fundamental problem, as Colonel Woods pointed out the other night at the Union, is to win the confidence and sympathy of the alien. The average native citizen is too apt to regard the alien as a being apart; and he is prone to work out his own plans for the alien's salvation, without knowing much about the workings of the alien's mind. But a man cannot be cured of his ills, either physical or mental, without his own consent and active assistance. If we are to solve the problem of the foreign-born population, it can only...
...talk which Dean Pound is to give in Standish Hall tonight are of particular importance in that they will teach the undergraduate something sure to be of practical assistance to him in after life. Absorbed in its desire to give students an "academic education," the University is apt to overlook the importance of leaving with its members something to guide them in the days that follow graduation. The result has been that the young University man is thrust from the shelter of his alma mater into the maze of the world, knowing not which path to select. His educational training...
...experience contributes to knowledge, but experience is not knowledge unless properly classified and put under control. At college the classics used to be the instruments of mental disciplining. Since they have been abandoned, to all intent and purpose, with the advent of the elective system, students are apt to make the mistake of thinking that all the secrets of the world are to be stored in their minds in four brief years (a task that ages of men have not accomplished), and with this wild hope they neglect to search themselves, see wherein they are weak where a course...