Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evils of a long established custom are too apt to be overlooked and the advantages of a proposed remedy to be dismissed as theoretical and unpractical. Although this natural conservative tendency is the reason for inactivity in reform, it is certainly no justification for the undue continuance of a "laissez-faire" policy. The present tutoring system is not satisfactory, and various expedients, among which that outlined above would probably bring the best results, are possible. Under the circumstances, some remedial action on the part of the authorities should be undertaken...
...candidate for a degree with distinction or the contestant for a scholarship, marks are of the utmost importance. The condition outlined above bears unfairly upon such men, for they obviously will not take courses which are apt to jeopardize their chances of success. The final effect is to limit the undergraduate in his choice of electives...
...impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence. We are tending in America to make a fetish of degrees. Moreover, in conferring the degree itself we are in danger of relying too much on mechanical rating. The ordinary student is too apt to treat courses as Cook's tourists do the starred pictures in foreign galleries, as experiences to be checked off and forgotten...
...trying to get into the situation. An understanding of the character of the "Faith Healer" is difficult to many and the failure to comprehend and unquestioningly accept the fundamental thesis will make a full appreciation of the play impossible. The point, the accumulative effect of the play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand we seldom trust. The people among whom...
Printed lists of numbers, such as the one which this morning summarizes-the vital statistics of the University, are apt to be dry reading. Unless one has detailed knowledge of the changes in organization that are constantly going forward, the gains and losses in particular departments carry little meaning...