Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chapel choir is so apt to be the butt of ignorant criticism and ancient witticisms, that it is no more than fair to give it a little of the praise which it has so justly earned. Its performances during the last week or two have been especially creditable both to itself and to its leader. This excellence is the more to be commended when we consider the difficulty of singing well so early in the morning and in such a vicious temperature as that which always pervades Appleton Chapel. A great part of the increase in popularity of the present...
...unfortunate results, still it seems to us impossible to supply any substitute that will arouse the same enthusiasm. This spirit of rivalry is the same spirit that enters into all the matters of life and is a most necessary part of that life. That at some colleges it is apt to bring about such perfection in a few individual men to the discouragement of the many is unfortunate, but this is the same thing that happens in any course of study or other pursuit. No one claims that the study of oratory or mathematics does not accomplish an excellent purpose...
Concerning compulsory prayers and college authorities the Amherst Student quotes the following very apt passage from Wordsworth...
...subject of fire-escapes we would like to object once more to the use of Appleton Chapel as a refrigerator by the Dining Association. We do not believe the Chapel was endowed for that purpose; and, besides the unwarranted desecration, the present temperature of our devotions is apt to lend a halo of attractiveness to the future abode of the non-elect which defeats the ostensible purpose of the religious exercises...
...injury will these institutions receive from an editorial making such grave charges as does the one in the Spirit. The college journals are read for the main part by the students themselves; the Spirit circulates among the parents of students and of prospective students. As these parents are not apt to see the college papers, it is doubly important that the Spirit should give a fair statement of the facts and not a rambling mass of generalizations. For the paper in question has certainly misrepresented the state of affairs, but we trust unintentionally so. This "quarrel," waged with such bitterness...