Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number begins with "A Student's Recollections of Thomas Wentworth Higginson," by Mr. E. Wentworth Huckel, more sympathetic and hero-workshiping than inspired. Next is a sonnet by Mr. E. E. Cummings, about as cryptic as undergraduate sonnets are apt to be, and that is saying a good deal. After this comes a fairly amusing and lively story, "Bluff," by "B." Mr. R. S. Mitchell's poem, which follows, "From the Arabian Nights," is the best verse in the number, a pleasing experiment with the difficult Spenserian stanza, though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than...
Unless continually subjected to the standard opinions of the students, courses are apt to persist in some sort of error for years. With a view toward increasing the efficiency of a course and the benefits to be derived from it, it is suggested that cards be distributed among the members either at mid-years or finals. On these the student might write any suggestions which he considered of value and it is to be expected that this would assist in solving some of the problems confronting the professor. Such a plan has been tried in several instances and is particularly...
...games are not within the financial reach of many. As for those who know nothing of hockey, and who have been led by apathy to prolong their ignorance of the most vigorous and exciting of winter sports, if they will but attend a "trial" game, they are rather apt to want to come again and often...
...this time of the year undergraduates, and especially the Freshmen, are apt to lose sight of the opportunities offered in general athletics. More upper classmen are enjoying, however, the opportunities afforded in the daily class in the Gymnasium than ever before. With the success of Dr. Schrader's class in view, it is gratifying to note that the regular class in general athletics for the Freshmen will begin this year before the Christmas recess...
Undergraduate publications are apt to lose sight of the fact that the University, as well as the editors, is held responsible, and is judged and criticized for any intemperate utterance. If the editors were publishing the "Monthly" purely as a personal venture, and if the "Monthly" did not purport to be a magazine, representative of the literary ability and taste of the University, the editors might feel at liberty to publish anything within the postal regulations. But the "Monthly" calls itself the "Harvard Monthly," and is circulated as a Harvard undergraduate magazine. Its responsibility to the University is clear...