Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is one marked improvement in this number of the Monthly over the last: it contains less poetry in proportion to the prose. Too much verse in a magazine of this nature is apt to pall...
...Lafayette's visit to this country in 1824 and cannot fail to awaken in the minds of every one who reads it the appreciation of the vast strides in culture and wealth which has been made in the United States during the past half-century. The present generation are apt to forget the condition of their country so many years ago, and neglect to realize the mighty advancement of every branch of industry. The contrast is well set off by Mrs. Lamb in her chapter on the incidents in connection with Lafayette's visit. "Stephen A. Douglass and the Free...
...Meaning of the Georgics" is a very appreciative study and points out with clearness the true spirit in which Virgil wrote these poems. The layman or the cursory reader is too apt to see in the Georgics nothing deeper than rustic romanticism of the idylls, and it is well to call attention to their real character...
...three years experience, found it an easy task to vanquish the Yale team, weak from lack of experience. I have a faint remembrance now, of the general feeling of mortification among the students because of that crushing defeat, and the determination to retrieve the next season. How apt pupils they were is shown by the fact that since that time Harvard has never defeated the men whom she first taught to play the Rugby game...
Freshmen are apt to be young and foolish, but they should remember that these qualities are exhibited best when they are not exhibited at all, and therefore the early morning hours are not the most fitting times for the exhibitions of spirit. The communication today complains of a nuisance which is quite common. It results form carelessness, we suppose, but it is none the less an evil. There are surely certain rules of self-restraint which the in mates of the dormitories should observe in order that they may protect themselves from lawlessness...