Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...times like the present, when everyone is much interested in current topics--the war in the east and the Panama canal question--we are apt to forget that at other times there may be very little interest in current events. It is at such times that clubs for the discussion of contemporary subjects break down...
...January number of the Harvard Monthly is of the kind which is pleasant to remember. Whoever has kept files of this only undergraduate publication which pretends to serious literary purpose must have grown aware of how well the volumes hold their own. The pages are not apt to be instantly brilliant; but in many ways they prove to have a quality not quite ephemeral...
...Graduates' Magazine for December is filled with intelligent discussion of our University problems, apt bits of Harvard history and other pleasantly written articles of special value to college...
...while willing and hard-working is not experienced enough to take advantage of all opportunities. But he has a determination and activity which helps out his lack of experience. His punting is generally good. Meier plays a hard, determined game, but because of his lack of weight, is apt to be worn down by repeated attacks. Clothier at left end suffers by comparison with Bowditch, but is a player of average ability and more than average aggressiveness. Back of the line, Marshall has not played the game that his former reputation called for. His signalling for plays has been slow...
...most satisfactory test for a given number of the Lampoon is a question whether it contains much, or anything, which will be apt to serve, in years to come, as a pleasant reminder of college days. It is only as a record of student life at Harvard that the Lampoon is worth while. Judged by this standard, the last number, through not extraordinary, agreeably justifies its existence. The pictures, for all their rather crude drawing, are good-natured and tolerably local. The text-Lampoon text has always consisted principally of "filling"-contains a divertingly new interpretation of a familiar phrase...