Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...religious side of our college life, or at least that part of it which concerns itself with Appleton Chapel, is apt to receive too little attention from college men, partly through indifference real or feigned and partly through a false and perhaps unmanly feeling that the services, especially morning prayers, are a part of college life unimportant and not worth attendance. The average college man recognizes morning prayers as an institution which must be, but which he thinks have no place in his every day life, and that the time spent in attending them would be but a waste...
...peaceful and they had a cheerfulness that came from feeling that God was on their side. After their exile they were scattered and as aliens were isolated and made to feel the strangeness of their situation. In some cases they were persecuted but not so much as we are apt to think. These persecutions were especially bitter about the second century...
...indeed appear the wiser course of action to erect it immediately rather than wait for further be quests, and this not so much from unselfulness as for the special need existing for a Museum of Fine Arts in the University and beautiful surroundings for the art student. We are apt to place stress upon convenience rather than upon esthetic considerations in our buildings; but one need only recall the lasting impressions of the old world architecture to acknowledge its supremacy as an educator for what modern architecture may +++ with us. The site of the new building is a pleasing...
Professor G. L. Kittredge spoke informally at the meeting of the Christian Association last evening, on the Heathen Scandinavian's Idea of a Man. He referred to the Scandinavian of the year 1000, about the date that Iceland was converted to Christianity. We are very apt to think of the man of that time as entirely different from the man of today; on careful study, however, we find the similarity of his nature to our own is really remarkable...
...devoted solely to one subject, is felt the more strongly by those who have known what it is to be without these libraries. And, moreover, it is just the books which the graduating class can give to these libraries that are the books in greatest demand. Most men are apt to get the books which are most needed by them, and thus will be most needed by those who come after them, and the richer these class-room libraries can become in the very books which are most in demand, the greater will be the advantages of study offered...