Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...always stood for the most liberal views not only in education but in religion, and this fact has been so emphasized and the contrast between Harvard's liberal position and the narrow views entertained by other more sectarian universities has been so often dwelt upon that we are apt to take it for granted that any institution which stands for some particular form of religious belief is thereby handicapped in the race for true learning, and must surely be distanced by those whose position on religious questions is not so strictly defined. Like a refreshing breeze comes Mr. Bonaparte...
...unfortunate that such an interesting lecture as Professor Putnam's promises to be should come so late in the year when people are apt to be busy. It is unfortunate for the subject on which Professor Putnam is to speak is one which is general enough to interest everyone, no matter what his own specialty may be , and it is moreover one which is attractive from its very novelty. There are probably very few men in college who have given much attention to a study of American archaeology, and yet the number is still fewer of those who would...
...would have another chance to redeem herself when Pennsylvania came to play the match in Cambridge. That chance has come today, and it is now or never that Harvard must show that this year she is superior in base ball to the University of Pennsylvania. The game today is apt to be very close and exciting, for Pennsylvania as well as Harvard has been making steady improvement during the year. After the Yale and Princeton games this game will be distinctly the most important one played in Cambridge this year, and the whole college should turn out to give...
...present freshman class is as short sighted as the few previous classes have been, the same trouble is apt to arise this year. There is still about a thousand dollars to be raised before the tenth of June. If the class is unwise it will hold back its support, the question will come to a point and have to be put squarely then just as it is now, that if the thousand dollars are not raised the crew cannot go to New London. Then while the managers are slaving about the class trying to get enough money, the crew will...
...lost. The enthusiasm was (for a class game) reduced to a minimum. When so much of the enjoyment of the class games consists in this feature of enthusiasm, it seems a pity that at the deciding game of all games, at the game where class spirit and cheering is apt to be at its highest, such an effective damper should be placed upon the proceedings. We fear it was a mistake...