Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class, which includes such subjects as the classics and mathematics, is most useful to the lawyer, while courses in economic theory, which belongs to both classes, are also useful. The ability to write and speak clear English is also essential. College law courses, except those in international law, are apt to be confusing...
...that the different courses are so closely related with one another that it is difficult for the professors not to overlap each other or else not to leave unnecessary gaps with the result that the mind of the first-year law man is hopelessly confused and he is apt to entertain the unhealthy notion that the law is a mysterious agglomeration of disjointed matter in separate compartments. These disadvantages will be overcome in so far as it is possible by bringing the School to that state in which every instructor is thoroughly acquainted with the instruction...
...reserves whatever. The present task of Lord Kitchener bespeaks the effect of Great Britain's policy. There is a general confidence in our volunteer system. Experience has shown that many hundreds of thousands would readily respond to a call, and this mere statement of the numbers available is apt to produce a false feeling of security. General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, has declared that 300,000 men would be necessary at the outset of an attack on this country; the total available mobile force is at present less than 90,000, and that discrepancy, coupled with the absolute need...
...takes into account the curious psychology that puts the strong arm in a higher place than the well developed brain. Under precent though not necessarily normal conditions, the Phi Beta Kapa trophy may serve as an incentive to increased effort in the field of studies, but it is not apt to reduce materially the importance many sub-Freshmen attach to athletic ability and achievements. The idea of such a trophy, is, nevertheless, a good one, and the competition for it and its final award will be watched with interest...
...regulation of the Medical School that men who have had two years in College and who satisfy certain requirements, may enter as regular students is not apt to lower the School's standards. The men thus admitted must stand "high in their college work and must make good marks in the Medical School. Now is the time for Freshmen who are contemplating entering the Medical School to find out if they are fitted to enter it after two years in College; and if they are, to arrange their courses so as to satisfy the new requirements of the School, which...