Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...societies, and class and athletic organizations, the Harvard student is required to cast a vote for somebody or other, on an average, twice a week during the college year. Now this practice in the exercise of the American citizen's chief prerogative is a good thing, - but it is apt to become monotonous, as may be seen by the decidedly slim attendance at many of these constantly recurring elections. One sort of election, however, never fails to bring out a large vote; we refer to the balloting for Memorial Hall officers. It may be that there is, after all, some...
...give to it. The most prominent gentlemen in their several departments are lending their best efforts to the success of the course, and the readings already given are examples of the excellence which may justly be expected in the readings which are to follow. Too many of us are apt to lay aside the classical or even the modern languages, when once our minds are diverted to other channels of study. It is exactly for such men that the course has been established. Little effort is required to attend these readings, and there is no supplementary course of instruction offered...
...such courses is compelled to rush down innumerable flights of stairs and make his way along Oxford street and through the yard at a neck or nothing pace. It need hardly be said that such unnatural speed as this is harmful to the last degree, especially since it is apt to follow closely upon the exhaustion produced by the daily sprint race to the chapel doors. Yet the student must go into this "rush," or else be marked absent at the recitation at which he is due on the hour immediately after his recitation at the museum. Some change must...
...visit to the boat-house and a casual inspection of the boats and oars there stored is apt to make the visitor take his departure with plenty of food for reflection, and unpleasant reflection it cannot fail to be. The University Boat Club is supported by the subscriptions of the students, and it has always been supposed that some provision is made for the aquatic exercise desired by those who are not members of either of the five regular crews. Yet what is the real state of matters? A glance at the array of craft tucked away upon the brackets...
...refer to "Bloody Monday Night," - whose features are, to say the least, a disgrace to every one concerned in them. Apart from the fact that most of the punches are obtained by threats, - a thing which would be instantly resented anywhere else, - the circumstances attendant upon them are apt to fill the mind of the average spectator with profound disgust. I am not a member of the H. T. A. L., but I believe I voice the sentiments of a large number of my class in hoping that these scenes may be this year suppressed by the united efforts...