Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first requisite in public speaking, he said, is thorough acquaintance with every phase of the subject. The precept which the young lawyer is most apt to disregard is the importance of knowing his opponent's side of the case with the same thoroughness as his own. Clearness, simplicity of language and conciseness are invaluable qualities in public speaking. The last-named in particular is an indispensable asset in stump speaking. A good rule is to have something to say, say it briefly, and sit down...
...that it is not difficult to get the English point of view, or that "refinement, because it is the most difficult part of education to attain, should therefore come last." Some things, on the other hand, are neatly put, such as this: "Some one who is very English is apt to be a South African: Canadians are far more independent, and Americans too much...
...general, this issue of the Monthly, with its several interesting experiments in pure feeling, partly happy, often groping, tills one with the regret that students in their literature courses, where modern methods of study are apt to seem rather intelligent than instinctive, receive so little stimulus to this kind of individual expression...
...disadvantage. Life with us is too decent orderly, conventional, grown-up man- nish, and of the world worldly. There are few persons who of their won selves write caricature, merely ex-officio, in salt without meat. Again, very little that is ridiculous happens, and when it does, we are apt to regard it only in its ethical aspect, and solemnly approve or disapprove. Now and then, to be sure an event screams through the decorous stillness: witness the last Brooks House afternoon tea, which took the form of an "informal memorial, service" to the late bishop. But such oddities...
...Music, the universal art, is apt to come to him in its more frivolous and vulgar form, so that the regards it only as a light diversion. The exceptions to this class, men who, by fortunate environment, have experience of the best music as listeners and performers, realize that they have an invaluable resource and a quickened sense of beauty; that if such opportunity could be extended, in some degree, to the average college man, he would also gain a higher appreciation of the dignity of the art, and a considerable addition to the sum of his cultivation...