Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contemns their calling. Now and then a professor of unusual force or shrewdness or attainment, keeps his place in the memory of his old pupils as a guide, philosopher, and friend; but as a general rule, our American graduates, and especially those who succeed in life afterwards, are apt to remember their college days mainly as days of fun with their classmates, and very rarely as days of instruction from men of stronger minds and longer experience...
...soon to be occupied, with hedges. These two simple expedients will prevent the immediate surroundings of the university from taking on at any point the usual aspect of "vacant lots" in the outskirts of towns and villages, features which, in California, on account of the dry summer climate, are apt to be more forlorn even than in the east...
...social standing of real students: "Little distinction is made between a man who studies hard and at the same time develops other sides of his life, and the man who does nothing but study. The same semiopprobrium attaches to each. Because a man does any work he apt to become 'non-fashionable' and there is generally an end to him." This may be true during the first two years of the college course, but we venture to assert that later in the course the society men fall and the grinds and the semi-grinds rise in the estimation...
...speaker said that our life with its great diversity of joy and sorrow, opens like the battle of the Syrians and Israelits among the hills and valleys of Samaria. We, like the Syrians, are too apt to disregard the influence of God on the average man of the valley, and we place our attention and admiration upon the fortunate ones who have reached the mountain summits of success. But God rules among the hills and valleys alike and it is only from the later stage of mediocrity that the advance of morality is reckoned...
...speaker taking his text from Col. 3, 1 and 2, made an earnest appeal against the use of earthly motives in our lives. We are too apt to look at events which have spiritual significance for us only in the light of historical fates. The resurrection means to many of us merely that Christ arose as victor over death, and that we who are his followers will arise likewise; but the true meaning for us should be as Paul said it was-an actual experience of our present life. God is ever with us, and we should feel his presence...