Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critics of present-day institutions of learning are too apt to consider the college as a meditative brooding-machine for the hatching of bread-winners. Not until undergraduates realize that school, college, and later life are a continuous curve, not until graduates cease to separate college from the "great world" will these critics cease to be right...
...pointed out in a letter run elsewhere in these columns, further acquaintance with the light in which this would be received by members of the Class of 1933 has convinced those concerned of the error of their judgment. The members of the committee are to be commended for their apt appreciation of the point of view opposed to their intended move...
...immediately pop into our minds as we read them in cold print. And yet we can get them off with a perfectly straight face, and conviction in our tones. This bland positiveness bears out the suggestion of a recent alumna that college, whatever it may teach us, is very apt to deprive us of our sense of humor and our ability to see things in their proper proportions and relationships...
...order thus to pack the problem of the world into a neat word-pattern, it is necessary to eliminate the matter which does not accord with our preconceived hypothesis. We will see proof for our statement in everyone we meet, and quite ignore the opposing evidence which is apt to be every bit as obvious and sometimes even more frequent...
...President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History made dire threats to his directors. He was irked by the annual hat-passing made necessary by the Museum's perennial deficit. If new endowment was not forthcoming, said he, the following would be apt to happen: dismissal of 35 employes, stoppage of support for field expeditions, reduction of publications, suspension of other museum work...