Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they would be the men who would chiefly carry on the discussion, if it were open. The latter method, a general discussion, would have some advantages, but it is open to the objection that it would take much longer to accomplish the same result, and would be much more apt to wander away from the main argument. But unless the students wish themselves placed in the same position as before, only to sit passively by while the faculty act, they must bestir themselves. We should be happy to take notice of any feasible plan which anyone may wish to propose...
...they have at heart the best interests of athletics in particular, and of the students in general. The difference between the Faculty and the students on this question is not so much one of kind as of degree, and as the practical experience of the latter in athletics is apt to be greater than that of the former, we think their opinions ought to be considered before any final action is taken...
Apart from the judiciousness of any detailed rule of this nature, we also object to this particular rule as it stands. Many old rowing men, and medical men, who have been consulted, and who are prepared to express any opinion, say that a three-mile race is apt to be more injurious to the members of the crew than a four-mile race would be. The reason for this is that although the strain lasts a shorter time, it is of a much more violent nature in a three-mile, than in a four-mile race...
...destroy private property and thus create a public disturbance and breach of the peace is granting too much license even to students in an excited state and not easily controlled. It may be possible that the affair, as stated in the daily papers, is greatly exaggerated, as is apt to be the case. This was so with regard to the Phi Beta Kappa rumpus. which happened in Boston several years ago, and which in reality was only a harmless affair. We heartily hope that such is the case and that the Pennsylvanian students have not lowered the credit of their...
...question has been sufficiently studied, particularly here at Harvard. The entire discussion of the Greek question has been made on so-called practical grounds. Our professors and our magazine-writers have confined themselves in their debates on the subject to what a speaker in the Harvard Union so aptly called the "bread-and-butter" view. "We must consult the spirit of the times in which we live. That spirit tends entirely towards progress, towards the substitution of new and more practical ideas for those which have governed the world for centuries past. We must keep abreast of the modern movement...