Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said that modern crities are altogether too apt to overlook the difficulties which the early painters had to encounter when they first started the Renaissance movement. People find fault with their pictures because they differ from modern paintings, but they do these old masters injustice to compare them with modern artists. Even if they are not understood now-a-days the Italians were skilful painters for the times in which they lived; in fact, one of the chief causes for this lack of appreciation is that the old masters worked under the inspiration of religion, while nature was a comparatively...
...Parable of the Talents differs from the other in that the master rewards the faithful servants by permitting them to enter the kingdom of heaven. The unfaithful one is cast into outer darkness. These parables are applicable to college life. A student is apt to shirk his duties at the beginning of the year and his failure at the mid-year examinations corresponds to the reproof of the master. If he persists in not taking advantage of his opportunities he is sure to be cast into outer darkness at the finals...
...lenghth of time that the sophomore crew have been at work is taken into consideration, their present form is disappointing. The crew is dedecidedly below the average, despite the fact that many of the men rowed last year. The men are not alive to their work and are apt to rush their slides. The stroke seems nervous, and has no beat...
...does the world no good simply because it lacks opportunity. If it could reach beyond college bounds and could be given something besides itself to spend its energy upon, its energy would greatly increase. The trouble is simply that college men and the "outside world" are a bit apt to look askance at each other and to feel that they have little in common. Yet college men are a part of the world and until they realize that they are citizens and that they have the duties and opportunities of citizens, they must be accounted narrow minded. As citizens...
...aspirations we are too apt to be thwarted by the obstacles which the over cautious or suspicious thrust before us. The man with a measuring line comes to us and lays down in accurate terms all the mountainous obstacles which lie in our path. The twelve disciples were sent out to convert the world; the same surveyor presented to them a careful estimate of the great indifference of the human race towards religion, the pagan armies of the mighty Roman Empire which must be overcome, but the little band of twelve did what they could from year to year until...