Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...while due credit must be given to the men who work at their different and widely varied activities, it must be admitted that there are certain men who do stand aloof from the opportunities which Harvard offers. Such men are apt to be not only indifferent, but intolerant. The College is so large that it is impossible that there should not be a great number of men who are content to criticize the activities of others and to derive benefit from them without making any effort to do their share. It is against these men that the charge of Harvard...
...easy quarter and will probably meet the winner of the match between A. S. Dabney, Jr., '10, and F. J. Sulloway '05. The last named should have a very close match with the odds in favor of the more steady Sulloway. While these results seem likely now, upsets are apt to be registered by any one of the present Harvard team or by a number of past Harvard champions. It is planned to have a match played every day until the semi-finals, which will probably take place Wednesday, with the challenge round on Saturday...
Perhaps there is no saying more trite than that a custom or habit once firmly established in a community is apt to continue unnoticed long after it has become, in the opinion of outsiders, an unmitigated evil. Equally evident must be the fact that of all communities a large college would be the last place where such a situation could exist for any length of time. But in dealing with the delicate subject of undergraduate honor, we feel that an abuse, the seriousness of which few suspect, has flourished in our midst far longer than any excuse can justify...
...taken an extra year in College in order to play on a University team. In a day when the greatest emphasis is laid on athletic prowess, more athletes delay graduation than graduate as soon as practicable, the acknowledged proper course. Instead of a premium on loafing, as there is apt to be at present, athletics should offer to the man capable of the three year course, the same advantages as does debating, the Glee Club, or dramatics...
Especially harmful are such plays to the undergraduates of higher educational institutions. College men are in an impressionable and formative state, and are very apt to be attracted to and injured by salacious dramatic offerings...