Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman's introduction to the University is not complete until he meets Professor Copeland and hears him read. An opportunity to meet him and hear him is afforded tonight when he will give a reading in Smith Hall at nine. Few "sermons to Freshmen" are more effective or more apt to be remembered than "The 'Eathen" as Professor Copeland reads...
...haste to avail himself of the opportunities for success at Harvard, several important items are apt to be overlooked. To the class of 1918 we say, therefore, that all roads to success here are barred if you fail to keep in good standing with the College Office. Acquire that and keep it and you are free to enjoy the responsibilities which appeal...
...editorial page is forceful, pointed, epigrammatic; a happy change from the too well balanced periods we are apt to expect from the Monthly board. This seasonable sort of editorial is to be encouraged. Directed toward matters affecting the college, it might become a power in influencing public opinion...
Prominent among the student's ideas of the knowledge he acquires in the University is the one that the subject matter which he is being taught is mainly theoretical, and that little of it is practical. Especially is this idea apt to be held by one entering into the field of government and economics. Old beliefs as to the hesitancy in adopting various institutions of reform in governmental matters of the city, state, and nation are rapidly disappearing. New methods of city government, as taught to students in the University, are now given consideration by those in public authority...
Today the Associated Harvard Clubs of the Country are holding their annual meeting at Chicago. The importance of these yearly gatherings is apt to be underestimated, but it must be remembered that the graduates constitute a great living force of the University and they spread her reputation and fame throughout the world. When they assemble and hear, as they will this year, of remarkable expansion of the University in material and in other ways, a great deal of good is bound to result. This meeting should eclipse all that have gone before from the standpoint of attendance and influence...