Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Such a report is plainly apt to do damage; the fear of higher tuition fees would tend to keep many men from coming to the University. They would reason that all safe calculations of expenses must be based, not on the present fees, but on those likely to be established. The fullest growth of the University demands both that there be no increase in fees, and that there be no fear of such increase...
...been not so much to the playing itself as to the fact that the men have been really careless about their personal appearance. American college athletes have the reputation of being far less careful about their costumes than the English. Doubtless the influence at work in the gymnasium is apt to make one a bit neglectful. But after a moment's reflection any one must realize that a sleeveless rowing shirt, however immaculate, is not the best thing in which to appear before the grand stand at a ball game...
...invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse. Men have always been willing to pay the highest prices for things that were of no practical use whatever, and though a Frenchman has said that cookery was the test of civilization, we are more commonly apt to gauge it by the value set upon works whose only apology for being is their beauty. If we compare the spirit which led to the Great Exhibition of 1851, with that which underlay the first crusade we can hardly hesitate as to which was the nobler and most inspiring...
Even as a teacher he is often too much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes...
...truth which men see at the bottom of a well is apt to be nothing more than a reflected image of themselves...