Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the Seniors are availing themselves of the advantages offered by the Appointment Office, and are preparing to become active producers in the marts of the business world, the rest of us are apt to watch them with a feeling of envy. Lower-classmen, Freshmen especially, look ahead two or three more years of college, and wonder just how much it will mean to them. The possibility that Edison may be right occurs to them perhaps. At any rate there is a great deal of talk about "not coming back." "Spring fever becomes an epidemic...
...student is apt to look on the matter as essentially local. Class antagonism for him involves, perhaps, the club system, competitions and such phases of his life; especially is this true of large universities. College democracy is, to him, chiefly a question of how largely wealth and social position count in securing the honors esteemed by his fellows; of whether or not one "can come to Yale unless he is prosperous enough to pay an income tax, evade the Eighteenth Amendment and attend an expensive tutoring school...
...What is apt to cause comment, however, is the fact that on the same day the Senate succeeded in another attack against the new naval appropriation and opened a drive upon the supposed "armor ring". The Naval and the National Security Leagues were criticized, and the whole idea of building up the present strength of the navy was decried...
...whose function it is to advise, lives among others whose daily lives are spent in various active pursuits which perhaps take all their days and fill their minds with one subject so that their horizons are limited. If any public question arises in the town men are apt to turn to the lawyer as a person of trained mind, wider view and better able than most men to control his time. Therefore he finds a place on the local committees, in clubs, churches and other organizations. He is chosen to town office or is sent to the legislature...
...stories were intentionally funny. Told in the first person, the book is not altogether dull, but is full of many incidents that are absurd and often amusing. There seems to be no true sense of value--perhaps Miss Kelley is trying to show that city-life is apt to throw things out of proportion--but at times one is annoyed by the emphasis that is put upon trivial and unimportant matters. Often one is inclined to think that a better title might have been "Mary's Philosophy of Little Things...