Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mercenary days there occasionally appear strong plays that have "gone wrong." "Outcast," which had its Boston premier at the Hollis Theatre last night, is just such a play. It should have ended at the close of the third act, but, evident deference to the box office, which is still apt to insist that a play should end happily, resulted in a fourth act of stereotyped reconciliation and happy conclusion. That the play was not ruined by the anti-climax in this act, is proof prositive that it is a drama of exceptional power. For, in spite of its improbable ending...
...involves a strong existing tendency among American colleges. Again the answer to it is found only in practical experience. Professional study leading to a man's career in life is, and ought to be, almost passionately absorbing in comparison with other subjects pursued at the same time. These are apt to be regarded as of lesser importance as outlying parts of the curriculum of the school somewhat arbitrarily forced upon the student, and not of direct value commensurate with the things needed in professional life. It is well-nigh impossible, for example, to persuade a student of law, medicine...
...sports, or for bending his energies to playing the game right, rather than assimilating the intellectual background of his teachers. So strongly has this sporting technique been acquired by the college that even when the undergraduate lacks the sporting instinct and does become interested in ideas, he is apt to find that he has only drawn attention to his own precocity and won amused notice rather than respect. In spite of desire of instructors to get themselves over to the students, in spite of real effort to break down the 'class-consciousness' of teacher and student, the gulf between their...
...Mitchell also contributes an essay. "Montaigne and the Modern Age" is a dignified defence of the spirit of scepticism. Cynicism and scepticism figure in this issue of the Monthly College men seem at times to fear sentiment and as a result they are apt to plunge to the other extreme. But Mr. Mitchell's essay is not of this type. His arguments and ideas are thoroughly sincere and well worked out in a spirit of toleration much needed in these troublous times...
...paper. There is no contribution that is not well written, no contribution that makes one feel that the editors were short of material and had to fill up somehow. It is frankly undergraduate, frankly literary, devoid of pretensiousness and and affectation, entirely normal and sane. Undergraduate publications are apt to be either trivial and careless or else over serious, too much impressed with their splendid mission. Both these pitfalls the Monthly successfully avoids...